These buildings were dismantled after the war, but the brick chimney stacks remain. The main gate to Auschwitz I, the original camp, bears the infamous wrought-iron sign “Arbeit macht frei ...

An exhibit about Auschwitz might seem out of place in an international gathering that typically showcases state-of-the-art architecture and cutting-edge building materials.

Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi concentration camps, has come to symbolize the singular horrors of the Holocaust. Seventy years ago, Nazi guards forced around 60,000 surviving prisoners on a ...

Birkenau’s buildings are much more fragile than those at Auschwitz, which were built long before Nazi Germany took them over and originally served as military barracks. Advertisement ...

Monumental Nazi-era buildings in Germany are now tourist attractions, raising questions about their historical significance and the nature of tourism.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum announced Tuesday that its staffers discovered anti-Semitic graffiti spray painted on nine wooden barracks at the site in Poland.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum's collection of art includes work that prisoners secretly made while in Auschwitz. The museum has more than 100 portraits by Franciszek Jaźwiecki, a Polish ...

The spray-painted vandalism was on buildings at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the Nazi-run extermination site in occupied Poland. About 1 million people were killed there, more than 90 percent of whom ...

Police and prosecutors in Poland are investigating graffiti in English and German on multiple buildings at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, the site of the former Nazi German death camp.

That is why Jews the world over were appalled when, in 1984, Carmelite nuns took over an Auschwitz building that had once stored the Zyklon B gas that Nazis used to murder Jews.

It was 80 years ago Monday, on Jan. 27, 1945, that some 7,000 people were liberated from the Auschwitz concentration and ...