Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz concentration camp and liberated the prisoners from the Nazi regime’s horrific crimes.

A wooden sign with the word STOP stands in front of what was an electric barbed wire fence inside the former Nazi German ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today. Sometimes the only sounds are the soft ...

The extermination of Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II took place largely in occupied Poland. But for many Poles, ...

M onday, Jan. 27, marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Ten days prior to the ...

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

Weisz-Gut has now lived for over a year in Oswiecim, a town of around 40,000 inhabitants whose name was Germanized into Auschwitz by the Nazis during the Second World War when they occupied Poland.

The Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was liberated 80 years ago, is an enduring symbol of the Holocaust. Part of German dictator Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution" plan for the genocide of ...

Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025.

Barbed wire lines the road to work for Pawel Sawicki, deputy spokesman of the Auschwitz museum at the site of the former Nazi ...

Barbed wire lines the road to work for Pawel Sawicki, deputy spokesman of the Auschwitz museum at the site of the former Nazi ...

Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today. Sometimes the only sounds are the soft footsteps of visitors, people ...