Auschwitz-Birkenau

Josef Mengele was the embodiment of evil, prowling the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in the 1940s for his helpless victims, with the Nazi being obsessed with anomalies and carried out the most sadistic experiments on those prisoners, a new book reveals. Known as the Angel of Death and the most notorious war criminal…

The pictures were an afterthought. Once Soviet soldiers had liberated Auschwitz in January 1945, they realized they needed a record. They needed to show the world the horror they had discovered. So, they dressed survivors back up in their uniforms and paraded them around for the cameras. Who were they,…

In the New York Times-bestselling memoir "Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz" (Farrar Straus Giroux), Michael Bornstein (along with his co-author, Debbie Bornstein Holinstat) writes about his horrifying experience as a child who, at age four, was in the Nazis' concentration camp with his…

The pictures were an afterthought. Once Soviet soldiers had liberated Auschwitz in January 1945, they realized they needed a record. They needed to show the world the horror they had discovered. So, they dressed survivors back up in their uniforms and paraded them around for the cameras.Who were they, these…

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall is opening up about an important issue that has affected those close to her: domestic violence. After hosting a reception for the 15th anniversary of SafeLives, a U.K.-based organization dedicated to ending domestic abuse, at Clarence House on Wednesday, Camilla, 72, revealed that her own friends have…

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This month marked 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a concentration camp where an estimated 1.1 million people were murdered. But it was also where 3,000 babies were born because of the brave work of a Stanislawa Leszczyńska, a Polish Catho…

Seventy-five years ago, on January 27, 1945, the infantrymen of the Red Army’s 322nd Rifle Division were bludgeoning their way into the Third Reich when they discovered the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camps. The German inventors of industrialized mass slaughter had cleared out earlier, forcing some 60,000 prisoners deemed capable of slave…

A new coronavirus continued to spread rapidly in China. Several large cities were locked down in Hubei province, whose capital, Wuhan, is where the virus broke out. Streets emptied; people stayed at home. However, Wuhan’s mayor said that 5m people had left the city before the quarantine was imposed: some…

An astonishing new documentary airing on Channel 4 on Wednesday night aims to convey the horrors of the Holocaust in a vivid new light. Auschwitz Untold: In Colour recasts contemporary black-and-white news footage recorded after the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Red Army soldiers in January 1945 in naturalistic…