The three hostages emerged emaciated, with sunken eyes and sallow skin. They required assistance walking and could be seen ...
Like Canadians at Vimy Ridge in 1917, Jews died there for Western civilization.
When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the soldiers encountered unimaginable horrors, including mass graves, the smoldering ...
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.
During World War II, men, women and children were transported from across Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau, horrendous journeys in which they were packed into cramped cattle cars.
That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public exclusion to eventual internment to finally extermination. Millions of ...
First, Cohen, with a tour group from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, passed through the infamous “Arbeit Macht ...
Survivors of the Nazi's notorious Auschwitz death camp are taking center stage at the memorial service to mark 80 years since its liberation by Soviet troops.
Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting ...
My father had entered Auschwitz the previous spring, together with his parents, his two brothers, and two of his three ...
Some of the last living survivors spoke of worrying signs that safeguards of “never again” are falling away while ...
Auschwitz survivors have warned of the rising antisemitism and hatred in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s ...