The anniversary has taken on added poignancy due to the advanced age of the survivors, and an awareness that they will soon ...

With the world marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet troops on 27 January here is its history, ...

I feature my mother’s testimony in my teaching because it gives my students a direct link, through me, as my mother’s son, to ...

World leaders and a dwindling group of survivors joined in a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the ...

During World War II, men, women and children were transported from across Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau, horrendous journeys ...

In just over four-and-a-half years, Nazi Germany systematically murdered at least 1.1 million people at Auschwitz, built in ...

The ceremony is widely regarded as the last major observance likely to see a significant number of survivors in attendance.

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Nazi German forces murdered some 1.1 million people at the site in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during ...

Presidents, royalty, ambassadors, rabbis and priests will be joining the survivors in a heated tent set up at Birkenau on Monday afternoon. Germany, a country that for decades has been expressing ...