A new book focuses on the desperate letters written by many Jews seeking refuge in the Netherlands but who were denied entry ...

COMMENTARY: The Feb. 13-15, 1945, firebombing of the eastern German city symbolizes the brutality of World War II.

Photos donated to a Hungarian archive reveal the devastating aftermath of the siege of Budapest, which ended 80 years ago.

Victor Klemperer was an eyewitness to the Dresden bombings at the end of World War II, on February 13 and 14, 1945. The renowned scholar wrote what became known as the most vivid description of the ...

THESE ARE heady times for supporters of President Donald Trump. In their telling, their champion has declared a new era in which America will use its strength without embarrassment to secure its ...

There are no showtimes for this date. June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 through ...

On January 27, 1945, Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz concentration ... Auschwitz was an extensive network of camps situated around Oswiecim and Brzezinka, Poland. Between 1942 and 1944, mass ...

Eighty years ago on January 27, 1945, soldiers from Russia's Red Army ... Imprisoned since February 1944 in Monowitz, one of the three camps located in the sprawling concentration camp grounds ...

Eighty years ago on January 27, 1945, soldiers from Russia's Red Army entered the gates ... Imprisoned since February 1944 in Monowitz, one of the three camps located in the sprawling concentration ...

The Nazi concentration and extermination camp was the site of the largest mass murder in human history Laura Kiniry Travel Correspondent Soviet soldiers lead liberated prisoners out of Auschwitz ...

Itka Zygmuntowicz (1926–2020), Survivor of Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Death Camp (1940–1945) RG-50.030*0435, Oral history interview with Itka Zygmuntowicz, (1926-2020).

Ultimately, over a million people lost their lives in the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex before Soviet troops liberated the few survivors on January 27, 1945. In 2005, the UN General Assembly designed ...