Auschwitz was established in 1940 and located ... Inmates were put into poorly structured wooden barracks with 36 bunks each. Incoming prisoners who were selected for forced labor received tattoos ...

KCRA Documentary screens at University of Arkansas The home is the former residence of the commander of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Rudolph Höss. The house recently featured heavily in ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today ... an anniversary being marked at the site on Monday. There are the barracks which housed prisoners, a wall where the ...

At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal belongings of people killed there. The "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Will Set You ...

Auschwitz was originally a Polish army barracks in southern Poland. Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Poland in September 1939, and by May 1940 turned the site into a jail for political prisoners.

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 ...

A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps as a young boy will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since the liberation of one of the Nazi's most ...

Representatives of the Holocaust Center in Maitland say a visit to Europe shows plans for a new Orlando museum are on the ...

The museum's challenges are huge, and include efforts to conserve barracks and other objects that were never intended to endure for long. One especially emotional project involves the conservation of ...

WARSAW, Poland — The world's focus will be on the remaining survivors of Nazi Germany's atrocities on Monday as world leaders and royalty join them for commemorations on the 80th anniversary of ...