In addition to these death camps, German authorities decided to equip two existing camps—Majdanek, near Lublin, and Auschwitz, not far from Krakow—with gas chambers for mass killing.

in the background. THE FRONT GATE of Auschwitz carries the infamous phrase: ‘Arbeit macht frei.’ The writer states: ‘Perhaps ...

Holocaust survivors have been marking 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, in Poland. Tova Friedman, 86, Leon Weintraub, 99, Marian Turski, 98, and Janina ...

This interactive map explores the complex and surprising evolution of Auschwitz, the scene of one of the worst crimes in human history. This was where more than a million men, women and children ...

Four ninth-grade students from Germany have been photographed making a far-right extremist gesture during a visit to the ...

In 2015, 94-year-old former German SS officer Oskar Gröning went on trial in his home country, charged with complicity in the murder of three hundred thousand Jews at Auschwitz in 1944.

the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme has produced an exhibition on Auschwitz Birkenau, the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp, that provides background on the camp ...

In addition to these death camps, German authorities decided to equip two existing camps—Majdanek, near Lublin, and Auschwitz, not far from Krakow—with gas chambers for mass killing. Majdanek and ...

German envoys arrive at Versailles for peace treaty ceremony, 1919 World War I left Germany in a complicated and difficult situation that produced conditions Adolf Hitler could exploit, but ...