Auschwitz has become a symbol of the Holocaust ... moving to Oswiecim is "a tribute" to her grandmother and a victory of life over death. Nazi Germany "tried to kill my family.

When World War II broke out in 1939, Gajowniczek, now a sergeant, defended Wieluń — the first Polish city attacked by the ...

Auschwitz, someone says. What’s Auschwitz? they ask.

When Anne Sebba began researching a book on Auschwitz’s women’s orchestra, she soon learnt their spirit of sisterhood – rather than musical talent – sustained them, she tells Elisa Bray ...

Libuša Breder - Auschwitz Prisoner: "They were taking home lots of gold and other valuables, nobody counted it—it was a bonanza for them." This is the surprising and shocking story of life and ...

The words “music” and “Auschwitz” clash like a pair of giant brass cymbals. What role could the former, which soothes the soul and moves the spirit, possibly have in one of the most savage ...

Harrowing details about the 32-year-old’s life padlocked in a tiny room inside ... akin to a survivor of Auschwitz’s death camp,” officials said of the victim’s condition.

Gyorgy Kun, a Hungarian Jew, was 12 when he stepped off the cattle car that delivered him and his family to Auschwitz in 1944. Seared into his memory was their encounter with the Nazi physician he ...

When her number was called, a teenaged Helga Melmed's head was shaved and stripped naked before the Auschwitz guards. "We were taken to the showers, and we were certain that was the end of us — that ...

The Auschwitz Jewish Center opened in 2000 in Oswiecim ... “We want to represent Jewish life here before the Shoah, not the anonymity of mass death,” Schwartz, who died in 2016, told the ...

comes with a new set of challenges — especially when the novel was critiqued for inaccurately portraying life in Auschwitz. Morris’s “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” raised eyebrows from the ...

This infamous concentration camp began life as a collection of dilapidated former Polish army barracks set around a huge horse breaking yard. Words from "Commandant of Auschwitz" by Rudolf Höss ...