In the videos shared by the Claims Conference, one survivor, Alfred Sobotka, shares a photo from his bar mitzvah, and points to his father and brother, both gassed on arrival at Auschwitz. Another, ...
Survivors of the Nazi's notorious Auschwitz death camp are taking center stage at the memorial service to mark 80 years since its liberation by Soviet troops.
children and babies — were gassed to death soon after their arrival. Altogether the Germans murdered 6 million Jews, or two-thirds of all of Europe's Jews, in the Holocaust at Auschwitz and ...
This version corrects the date of Fürst’s arrival at Auschwitz to 1944, not 1943, in the seventh paragraph. It also corrects the date of liberation of Buchenwald to April 11, 1945, not 1944.
On the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, 98-year-old survivor Marian Turski addresses the commemoration in Poland.
Some of the last living survivors spoke of worrying signs that safeguards of “never again” are falling away while antisemitism rises.
At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal belongings of people killed there. The “Arbeit macht frei” (work will set you free ...