The Roma Family Camp massacre was part of the broader Nazi genocide of Roma people, known in the Romani language as the ...

Eighty years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz and began to document ... They couldn’t fall, and they were — they starved from, either from the heat, from malnutrition.

BUDAPEST, Jan 17 (Reuters) - When Agnes Darvas was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz in 1944, she escaped being sent straight to the gas chambers with other children largely because her coat had ...

They were on the same train to Auschwitz from eastern Slovakia in 1942 ... The date of their escape was April 30, 1945. We know because of the bravery of Magda, the middle Meller sister, who ...

Jan. 27 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the concentration camp in which Father Maximilian ...

The house of Rudolf Höss, the Auschwitz camp’s wartime commandant.Credit...Maciek Nabrdalik for The New York Times Supported by By Andrew Higgins Reporting from Oswiecim, Poland The mother ...

Eighty years ago this week, the Soviet Army arrived at Auschwitz, the vast death camp established by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland. By that point, Markus Jakubovic — a Jewish 19-year-old from ...

The truth about the Auschwitz death camp was one of the most closely guarded secrets of the Third Reich. Prisoners who tried to escape were killed in public as an example to other inmates.

(JTA) — Herman Shine, who is believed to be one of the last survivors to have escaped Auschwitz, has died. Shine, who worked as a roofer at the Nazi death camp before making a daring escape with ...