Upon seeing Auschwitz, Soviet General Vasily Petrenko, commander of the 107th Infantry Division, reportedly remarked, “I, who saw people dying every day, was shocked by the Nazis ...

The events marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz have served ... ends up being reduced to a present-day geopolitical reading.

“Auschwitz will stay with me until the last day, the last moment,” she said ... She clung to the hope of being reunited with her family. Liberation came; she later returned to Budapest ...

Entire families were wiped out. “For Jewish survivors, the liberation day is a very, very sad day,” Havi Dreifuss, a historian of the Holocaust at Tel Aviv University said in a recent online ...

Rabbi Samuel Rose had his remarks struck from the video record of a Holocaust memorial in Columbia, SC. He writes that he couldn’t not comment that day.

OSWIECIM, Poland — The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by ... Nations designated Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Across Europe, officials and others were ...

The King will become the first British head of state to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau when he tours the former Nazi concentration camp to mark the 80th anniversary of its liberation. Charles will ...

In 2005, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Leon Weintraub ... in recognition of the Red Army liberation of the camp on Jan. 27, 1945.

Holocaust Memorial Day is held yearly on 27 January to commemorate the memory of the six million Jews and other groups who the Nazis murdered in the Holocaust. Around 1.1 million people were ...

There, after liberation, Lesser’s cousin died ... Follow @JJPrzybys on Twitter. Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah, is observed each year on the 27th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan.