First, Cohen, with a tour group from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, passed through the infamous “Arbeit Macht ...

I never got to meet my grandfather Ludvig, who survived the Holocaust, or his mother Rachel. They were put onto a cattle cart ...

A HOLOCAUST survivor has revealed she was minutes away from being sent to her death at Auschwitz - before her train was diverted in a lucky twist of fate. Agnes Kaposi, 92, was just 11 years old ...

King Charles has joined world leaders in placing a candle on an empty wooden train car, which sits on the tracks at Auschwitz. The car carried people to the camps, and is regarded as a symbol of ...

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, survivor Tova Friedman says she thought she was the "only Jewish child in the world".

Janina, transported to Auschwitz from Warsaw in a freight train, recalled stepping out to the smell of burning bodies. In the camp, she cared for children in the block she lived in, earning ...

During the death marches, nearly 60,000 Auschwitz prisoners walked toward train stations in either Gliwice (a 30-mile distance) or Wodzislaw (a 35-mile distance). From there, they were transported ...

Auschwitz quickly became a potent symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust. Its notorious "selection process" for prisoners arriving at the camp's train platform determined life or death in mere ...

Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest extermination camp during the Nazi era. At least 1.1 million people were murdered there, more than in any other site of murder of the many groups targeted by Nazis.

"When I arrived in Auschwitz and got off the train, I saw the pits where human corpses were burned because the crematoria could not keep up," Iwanska, a 94-year-old survivor, told AFP earlier this ...

“When I arrived in Auschwitz and got off the train, I saw the pits where human corpses were burned, because the crematoria could not keep up,” Iwanska, a 94-year-old Warsaw-born survivor, told Agence ...