I never got to meet my grandfather Ludvig, who survived the Holocaust, or his mother Rachel. They were put onto a cattle cart to the Auschwitz death camp in 1944. Ludvig, who was about 15 at the time, ...

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 will join world leaders at the commemoration event in Poland where lights will be laid in memory of those murdered.

Why here? Why Auschwitz? "The site was chosen because of its central location in Europe, where it was easy to reach by train. There were also logistical considerations," Christoph Heubner ...

It held that distinction despite the fact that, unlike every other train station in the world, there were only arrivals. No passengers ever departed. Auschwitz was not only a place of murder.

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 ...

Bodies were burned or buried in mass graves. Janina Iwanska was taken to Auschwitz by train from another Polish transit camp in August 1944 at age 14. “As soon as I got off the wagon ...

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 ...

On the 80th anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation, its significance is being trivialized by tourism and popular ...

Nine days before the Soviet Army arrived at Auschwitz, the Germans marched 56,000 of the prisoners toward a train station 35 miles away to be transported to other camps. Fully 15,000 prisoners ...