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 ...
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 ...
Playing the cello saved Anita Lasker’s life. Deported to the concentration camp at Auschwitz in December 1943, aged 18, she, ...
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.
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 ...
Mr. Kun arrived at Auschwitz, the Nazi killing center in occupied Poland, at the outset of the camp’s deadliest period.
In the film, we see an infamous photo of her in Auschwitz, wearing her striped uniform ... carried a torch for his Jewish prisoner all his life. Safarty’s chief storytelling innovation borrows ...
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 ...