OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism, and is introducing it to ...

Poland has hosted a day of sombre ceremonies to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Nazis' most notorious death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Auschwitz, located in southern Poland, became a symbol of the Holocaust's brutality. Around 1.1 million people were murdered there, the majority being Jews. Other victims included Poles, Roma ...

Though when it comes to commemorating the horrifying magnitude of what happened at Auschwitz, every passing year — including this, the 80th anniversary — is of equal importance. Not least ...

It was the greatest tragedy of the Holocaust. In just five years, over one million people were murdered at Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration camp. Auschwitz was established ...

For 80 years, the haunting melodies of Auschwitz lay buried in silence, hidden among the archives of one of history’s darkest chapters. Now, for the first time, this lost music – composed by ...

Jan. 27 marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops. Very few survivors are left as the world commemorates the ...

King Charles is in Poland today to mark the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau's liberation. The King will become the first British head of state to visit the former Nazi concentration camp ...

Inside the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, the soldiers liberated roughly 7,000 prisoners who had been brutalized by a Nazi regime hell-bent on exterminating the Jewish people. The horrors ...

Anne’s father, Otto, who was the only survivor among the people who lived there, wanted to keep it that way to symbolize the emptiness he felt when he returned from the Auschwitz concentration camp.

People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of the rising antisemitism and hatred they are witnessing in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the ...