Auschwitz survivors and world leaders mark 80 years since Nazi death camp's liberation
Photos show the horrors of Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration camp, 80 years after its liberation
Survivors Mark Auschwitz 80th Liberation Anniversary
‘My father was the Tattooist of Auschwitz – it took me five attempts to visit his prison home’
Lali Sokolov – better known as the Tattooist of Auschwitz, who was immortalised in the 2018 book that has sold more than 13 million copies in 40 languages – has done more to keep the horrors of the Second World War alive than most in recent memory.
Survivors of Auschwitz deliver warning from history as memories die out
World leaders rubbed shoulders with 56 survivors of Hitler's death camp as they marked 80 years since its liberation.
American Holocaust survivor returns to Auschwitz for the first time
Ruth Cohen, a 94-year-old American Holocaust survivor, returned to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland for the first time. She recalled seeing family members before they were separated for the last time at the camp.
Memorializing the Holocaust Needs to Go Beyond Auschwitz
That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public exclusion to eventual internment to finally extermination. Millions of regular Germans—and Europeans more broadly—facilitated or silently accepted these actions.
The rail tracks of Auschwitz still cross the area as aging reminders of horror
During World War II, men, women and children were transported from across Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau, horrendous journeys in which they were packed into cramped cattle cars.
Pittsburgh families tell survivors' stories from Auschwitz 80 years later on Holocaust Remembrance Day
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the families of two survivors who resettled in Pittsburgh shared their stories.
At Auschwitz memorial, survivors see echoes of the past in rising antisemitism
Auschwitz survivors have warned of the rising antisemitism and hatred in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation.
Melissa Bell sits down with holocaust survivors for 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
January 27, 2025, marks Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. CNN’s Melissa Bell sits down with survivors to speak about the importance of this specific anniversary.
Auschwitz survivors warn of rising antisemitism at 80th anniversary of camp's liberation
Auschwitz survivors warned of the dangers of rising antisemitism on Monday, as they marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp by Soviet troops in one of the last such gatherings of those who experienced its horrors.
A gift shop at Auschwitz? New films, memoir explore the contradictions of ‘dark tourism’
The works explore a process familiar to Jewish visitors to the death camps and the former homes of vanished loved ones: an occasion to face the enormity of the Holocaust, the inheritance of family
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Auschwitz survivor blasts Germany's Merz over far-right cooperation
German Holocaust survivor Eva Umlauf appealed in an open letter on Thursday to conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz not to align his centre-right CDU/CSU bloc with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to pass legislation.