In October 1941 Auschwitz construction chief Karl Bischoff ... and putting so many people together meant that the barracks were breeding grounds for disease. Newly available documents reveal ...

At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal ...

The Auschwitz camp itself covers 50 acres and comprises 46 historical buildings, including two-story red brick barracks, a kitchen, a crematorium and several brick and concrete administration ...

Helena Citrónová - Jewish prisoner, Auschwitz: "When he came into the barracks where I was working, he passed me by and threw me a note. I destroyed it right there and then, but I did see the ...

The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and ...

More than 1.1 million people died in these camps' barracks, hospitals, gas chambers and labor fields. Travelers say the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum is one of Europe's best preserved ...