Auschwitz-Birkenau

Eighty years ago, on June 14, 1940, the first 728 prisoners arrived at Auschwitz. The camp was initially meant for Polish resistance fighters, but from 1942 it played a central role in the Nazi genocide of Jews. "My dear Halusia, Since June 14, I have been in the Auschwitz concentration…

A sign reading "Stop!" in German and Polish is seen at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz - KACPER PEMPEL/REUTERSThe Auschwitz Museum and Memorial in Poland has launched an emergency appeal for funding, saying it faces an "unprecedented situation" owing to the effects of the pandemic lockdown.The…

Bosses at the memorial and museum at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp have asked for donations to help fund an income gap from the lack of visitors during lockdown. Around 2.3 million people – many of them schoolchildren – visit the site every year but staff this week described the…

For the past seven years Jews and non-Jews from all over the world have participated in one can say without exaggerating the most inspiring bicycle ride in the world! Ride For The Living, a 60 mile one day ride from Auschwitz Birkenau to the JCC of Krakow, is literally a…

WARSAW — The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum was forced to launch an appeal for funding on Wednesday after two months under a coronavirus lockdown that saw revenue from visitors dry up. The site of Nazi Germany’s most notorious death camp normally draws more than two million visitors from across the globe each year.…

Warsaw (AFP) - The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum was forced to launch an appeal for funding on Wednesday after two months under a coronavirus lockdown that saw revenue from visitors dry up.The site of Nazi Germany's most notorious death camp normally draws more than two million visitors from across the globe each…

FILE PHOTO: The site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz is pictured during the ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, in Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2020. REUTERS/Nora Savosnick/File PhotoWARSAW (Reuters) - The Auschwitz Memorial is…

WARSAW (Reuters) - The Auschwitz Memorial is appealing for donations after it was forced to close to visitors as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, putting its financial situation under severe strain.The Memorial preserves the Auschwitz death camp set up on Polish soil by Nazi Germany during World War Two.…

by Cindy K. Stewart The 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp occurred this past January. Many stories have been written about the atrocities that occurred at this notorious camp during the German occupation of Poland in WWII. Many who survived Auschwitz and the death march west…

Utensils, tools and scraps of leather were found in a prisoners’ block at Auschwitz during renovation and restoration work. The objects were discovered last month hidden beneath a chimney flue in block 17 of the main camp, Austria’s National Fund for Victims of National Socialism told the AFP news service.…