The word “Auschwitz” has come to mean more than just the concentration camp in Poland. It’s shorthand for the horrors of the Holocaust, and proof of man’s capacity for extreme inhumanity to man. But ...
It has been 80 years since the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration complex. First established in 1940, Auschwitz had a concentration camp, large gas chambers, and ...
Jan. 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which this year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Remembering Auschwitz is, of course, tremendously important. It’s ...
WARSAW — The world’s focus will be on the remaining survivors of Nazi Germany’s atrocities on Monday as world leaders and royalty join them for commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the liberation ...
His voice wavers between anger and frustration. Didn’t we learn anything from the Holocaust, he asks? Wasn’t the world shocked and sickened enough to never let anything like that happen again? The ...
Robert Mulka, 66, former SS colonel and assistant to Auschwitz commander Rudolf Hoess, was released on bail today following his re-arrest on charges of suspicion of murder. Mulka was arrested in ...
“It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return to Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. “But it’s ...
On Jan. 27, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp in Poland, Catholics everywhere remembered the holy men and women who were witnesses of faith, hope, and ...
'The Lost Music of Auschwitz' and 'The Last Musician of Auschwitz,' airing in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, also look at the hope music gave its prisoners. By ...