Oswiecim, a small Polish town of around 10,000 inhabitants, was occupied by the German Wehrmacht in 1939, annexed and renamed Auschwitz. In 1941, the Nazis established the largest German extermination ...

Alwin Meyer has dedicated his life to documenting the stories of children imprisoned at Auschwitz. BERLIN (JTA) — Alwin Meyer knew about the Holocaust when he made his first trip to Auschwitz, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It has been 80 years since the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration complex. First established in 1940, ...

The Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkinau is an enduring symbol of the Holocaust. Part of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution" plan of genocide against European Jews, the camp operated ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sonia Warshawski was just a teenager when German soldiers forced her family into slave labor in 1942. While she survived, her family did not. “There is not a day that I'm not ...

Auschwitz: The Evolution of Terror will premiere on History Hit on January 26, the day before Holocaust Memorial Day. “Though unsurprisingly I’ve been to ...

A film shows a large group of children walking out of Auschwitz concentration camp in the company of nuns. Regina Horowitz recognized her own child and begged the camera operator to give her the ...

BUENOS AIRES — When Pope Francis goes on a silent pilgrimage to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp this Friday, it will be his first time in the former Nazi concentration camp that stands as ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Alexa Roth, of Stony Brook, a senior at Ward Melville High School and a CTeen leader at Village Chabad Stony Brook. Before going to Auschwitz, history felt ...