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.

The two men, both Slovak Jews who escaped from Auschwitz, secretly recorded fastidious notes about details of the death camp unknown to the outside world. These included schematics of the gas ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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.

Monday marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination ... more than 60 years after Rachel escaped the gas chambers, the Nazis finally triumphed.

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 ...