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 ...

Entering Auschwitz on Saturday, January 27, 1945, the Soviet soldiers struggled to make sense of what they saw. The camp’s liberation had not come cheaply: overcoming fierce resistance from German ...

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.

World leaders attended the commemorations of the discovery of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp by the Red Army on January 27, 1945 ...

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 ...

On the 80th anniversary of its liberation, survivors of the Holocaust gathered at the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Of the more than six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, 1.1 ...

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.