An Auschwitz survivor who was just 13 when she arrived at the concentration camp says the recent rise in antisemitism is driven by ignorance.
About 50 survivors of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau will return to the site on Monday to remember the day it was finally liberated on 27 January 1945. They will be joined by heads of state including King Charles and other European royalty, Emmanuel Macron of France and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
SS soldiers threw open the doors of the cattle car, where he was crammed in with his mother, father, brother, and more than 80 others. He remembers the tall chimneys of the crematoria, flames roaring from the top.
Furst, now 92, is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors able to share first-person accounts of the horrors they endured, as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis' most notorious death camp. Furst is returning to Auschwitz for the annual occasion, his fourth trip to the camp.
The Allied soldiers who liberated Auschwitz on January 27, 1945 discovered an unprecedented factory of death. Regarding what he expected when entering the gates of Auschwitz, Ivan Martynushkin, a soldier from the 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front,
At 99, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch is the last surviving member of the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz — her son tells her extraordinary story
On January 27, 2025, the world will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. On this historic day, author
Holocaust survivor Barbara Wojnarowska-Gautier was just three years old when she was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp and subjected to the disturbing experiments of Nazi doctor Dr Josef Mengele.
The home of the death camp’s wartime commandant, Rudolf Höss, which was the subject of the Oscar-winning movie “The Zone of Interest,” will soon welcome visitors.
To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, we hear from Mindu H
The Lost Music of Auschwitz' and 'The Last Musician of Auschwitz' air in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp where more than 1.1 million people lost their lives.
HAIFA, Israel (AP) — Naftali Fürst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ... infamous ramp where Nazi doctor Josef Mengele separated children from ...