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

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

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

Polish President Andrzej Duda remembered the victims of the Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, as commemorations ...

In May, 300,000 Jews are sent from Poland, and 23,000 from Germany and Austria. On May 4, the first Birkenau "selection" of arriving prisoners takes place, separating those slated for slave labour ...

Jews in Hungary and around the world are observing Holocaust Remembrance Day 80 years after the liberation of the ...

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 ...

Germany's Nazi regime also targeted Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, gay people and disabled people for elimination.

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 ...

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