Auschwitz-Birkenau

By Maayan Lubell OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - Jona Laks could smell the burning flesh as she walked towards death at the Auschwitz crematorium. More than 75 years later, aged 90, she has returned to what was the most notorious Nazi death camp of World War Tw…

The Hague (AFP) - Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Sunday made the Netherlands' first government apology for the war-time persecution of Jews."Now the last survivors are still with us, I apologise today in the name of the government for what the authorities did at that time," Rutte said.He was giving…

OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - Four U.S. rabbis led by New York's Avi Weiss gathered on Sunday in front of a church next to the Nazi German death camp at Birkenau in Poland arguing for its removal from a site where more than a million Jews were murdered. World…

view of auschwitz II Christopher Furlong/Getty Images January 27, 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the Soviet Army's liberation of Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration complex. First established in 1940 in German-occup…

The president of the World Jewish Congress has accused leaders of contributing to the drip, drip method of spreading antisemitism, comparing it to the defamation campaigns that culminated in the Holocaust. Ahead of the 75th anniversary on Mondayof the libera…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The railway track was extended right into the death camp at Auschwitz II in 1944 The Nazi death camp site at Auschwitz-Birkenau is especially bleak in January. My grandfather was murdered there and it took my mother decades before she was ready to visit.Meijer…

Vladimir Munk was sent to Auschwitz a few months before the concentration camp was liberated by Soviet soldiers in 1945. Emily Russell/NCPR Vladimir Munk remembers the day he walked free from Blechhammer, a sub-camp of Auschwitz in eastern Germany. "I was …

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz in January 1945 On 27 January 1945, Soviet troops cautiously entered Auschwitz. Primo Levi - one of the most famous survivors - was lying in a camp hospital with scarlet fever when…

Should the Allied powers have bombed Auschwitz when they received secret intelligence about what was taking place at the horrific Nazi death camp? That's a question explored by historians in a PBS documentary, premiering on Tuesday, titled, "Secrets of the D…

Auschwitz was the largest of the concentration camps and extermination centres built by the Nazis in occupied Poland, with more than 1.1 million men, women and children dying there. Most of them were Jews, some six million of whom were killed in the Holocaust…