Those who were deemed to be losing weight too quickly were sent to the gas chamber, Susan recalls. Image: Prisoners from Hungary arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp in spring 1945.

Commemorations are being held Monday on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, part of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Some saw their mum and dads dragged away to their deaths from their homes, others watched their loved ones get sent to the gas chamber at Auschwitz. One told how she watched her mother shot dead ...

Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and co-founded Warsaw’s landmark ...

Representatives of the Holocaust Center in Maitland say a visit to Europe shows plans for a new Orlando museum are on the ...

First established in 1940, Auschwitz had a concentration camp, large gas chambers, and crematoria. More than 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly one million Jews.

YeahMad’s YouTube show, launched in 2023, involves a comedy contest between cast members. In an episode released last week, which has attracted more than 470,000 clicks, Sydney comedian and influencer ...

German SS guards – there were more than 5,000 of them stationed at Auschwitz – selected new arrivals for the gas chambers or camp labour. Most Jews were sent immediately to the gas chambers.

She died in an Auschwitz gas chamber on the same day she arrived at the camp. The German philosopher saint was canonized on Oct. 11, 1998, and proclaimed co-patron of Europe in 1999 by Pope John ...