At 22, Army medic LeRoy "Pete" Petersohn helped liberate the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen and documented its horrors in a letter home, testimony his son says Petersohn felt compelled to record ...

World War II ended 80 years ago. But the attitudes and actions that created WWII’s Nazi concentration camps and led to the murder of 6 million Jews are not necessarily “long ago and far away.” That’s ...

OŚWIĘCIM, Poland (Press Release) — The Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation hosted representatives from 26 U.N. missions for a multi-day educational visit to Poland focused on Holocaust remembrance and ...

Eva Clarke, Hana Berger-Moran, and Mark Olsky are survivors born to survivors. During the Holocaust, their mothers were young Jewish women sent to concentration camps when they were newly pregnant.

BRZEZINKA, Poland — For about 80 years, Ruth Cohen would not come here. This is Auschwitz-Birkenau, a place where the Nazis treated people like animals caged in by electrified barbed wire, where ...

The mini-series is based on a true story, but some historians are not happy about its depiction of the Holocaust ...

Lucy Lowell, 103, reflects on her time in Auschwitz, sharing her journey of finding hope after escaping the concentration camp and living a life marked by grace and kindness, on Thursday, April 30, ...

The Auschwitz Memorial and Museum in Poland condemned actor Michael Rapaport this week after he posted a “fake, AI-generated” image of victims in the concentration camp. In a Facebook post on Saturday ...

So Auschwitz and a handful of other death camps were expressly built as part of what was termed the “final solution.” And it was for the mass extermination of targeted populations, particularly Jewish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World War II ended 80 years ago. But the attitudes and actions that created WWII’s Nazi concentration camps and led to the murder ...