Kun and his brother Istvan survived Auschwitz in part due to the fact that Dr. Mengele believed them to be twins and thus ...

Here There are Blueberries” examines the horror of casual photos of Nazis enjoying their downtime at Auschwitz.

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal belongings of people killed there. The “Arbeit macht frei” (work will set ...

Overlooking a gas chamber and a crematorium at Auschwitz, a large house inhabited by the Nazi death camp's commandant is to become a centre for the global fight against anti-Semitism and extremism.

Surviving Auschwitz and Neuengamme slave labour camp ... Those not viewed as useful were sent straight to the gas chambers. “A lady in front of us had a daughter about our age and several ...

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.

A horrifying documentary about the work of the Sonderkommandos, the Jewish prisoners ordered to cremate the bodies of those Jews murdered in the Auschwitz gas chambers. For the first time since ...

Throughout there was haunting and moving music by composers such as James Simon, a German Jew who was murdered in an Auschwitz gas chamber. His “Lament” set the tone for the evening.

More than 1.1 million people died in these camps' barracks, hospitals, gas chambers and labor fields. Travelers say the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum is one of Europe's best preserved ...