OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism, and is introducing it to ...

I cannot imagine a more symbolic form of justice... than turning what was once a breeding ground for evil into a space that ...

Remembering Witold Pilecki, the Hero of Auschwitz Historian Marco Patricelli recalls “the volunteer” in the concentration ...

This is Auschwitz-Birkenau, a place where the Nazis treated people like animals caged in by electrified barbed wire, where ...

The bright yellow Zoo Pet Shop is hard to miss for anyone driving along one of the main streets that leads to the Auschwitz-Birkenau ... to the concrete-reinforced wire fences.

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

Yes, the barbed wire was cut, and the death marches halted. The Nazi regime was defeated, and Auschwitz—the physical place—was emptied of its prisoners. But the hatred that built it ...

Auschwitz, located in southern Poland, became a symbol of the Holocaust's brutality. Around 1.1 million people were murdered there, the majority being Jews. Other victims included Poles, Roma ...

Electrified barbed wire divided it into 10 different sections. Sources: Jewish Virtual Library, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau's different sections were for "women ...

Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly a million Jews. On the day of liberation 80 years ago, only 7,000 were saved.

For 80 years, the haunting melodies of Auschwitz lay buried in silence, hidden among the archives of one of history’s darkest chapters. Now, for the first time, this lost music – composed by ...

Over 1 million people were killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau ... The wood and wire around the edges represent the barbed wire or boundaries holding people back and are interlaced with copper wire ...