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 ...

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.

They were gassed, shot, or starved and ... systematic killings at Auschwitz. They sabotaged industrial operations, slowing down work and damaging equipment, organised escape routes and smuggled ...

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 ...

Cell 18, basement of Block 11, at Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp where St. Maximilian Kolbe and his comrades were starved to death ... wrote one sentence that escaped the attention of ...

On the 80th anniversary of its liberation, survivors of the Holocaust gathered at the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Of the more than six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, 1.1 ...

“It is ironic that we are so close to the Auschwitz anniversary. Because examining the photographs of those starved remains was like going back in time and looking at photographs of the ...

Screenwriter Peter Moffat (Criminal Justice, Your Honor) is on board the adaptation, which tells the true story of how Rudolf Vrba, a 19-year-old Slovakian Jew, along with fellow inmate Fred Wetzler, ...