Urbanski said the Auschwitz Museum, which employs a total of around 850 people, is seen in town as "just another workplace." Good place to live The windows of the mayor's house in Brzezinka (Birkenau ...

Living in Auschwitz was a physical and mental torture for a woman. Daily life consisted of endless workdays with no real respite. Any excuse was an opportunity for the SS to humiliate or torture them.

Most people think of St. Maximilian Kolbe as the heroic martyr who traded places with another prisoner in Auschwitz, but ...

But we remember and have to live a normal life here despite the difficult past." Karlik works at the library of the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum, and wants to eventually become a tour guide there.

“The Daughter of Auschwitz: The Girl Who Lived to Tell Her Story” by Tova Friedman is a gripping true story of a young girl who survived Auschwitz. In this powerful ...

While he was interned at Auschwitz, he took more than 40,000 pictures of his fellow prisoners. One of them was of Czeslawa Kwoka, a 14-year-old Polish Catholic girl.

He reports that Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, now the sole survivor of the orchestras of Auschwitz, expressed bittersweet frustration at the recovery of the lost music.“It was frustration that it had ...

Now, over 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Lowell looks back on a life that was split into two parts — the before and after. She recalled, in an interview with the Miami Herald, the ...

In Krakow, not far from Auschwitz, leaders are trying to tell a different story, and spur a resurgence in Jewish life. By Marc Santora Aug. 11, 2019 At War ...

Hila Weisz-Gut, a 34-year-old Israeli, is sure her Auschwitz survivor grandmother would be outraged by her choice to move to Oswiecim, a Polish town in which Nazi Germany built the death camp.