In addition to these death camps, German authorities decided to equip two existing camps—Majdanek, near Lublin, and Auschwitz, not far from Krakow—with gas chambers for mass killing.

"Auschwitz is unique," explains series producer and writer Lawrence Rees. "It has a physical beginning in May 1940 and physical ending in January 1945, and is the site of the single largest mass ...

Holocaust survivors have been marking 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, in Poland. Tova Friedman, 86, Leon Weintraub, 99, Marian Turski, 98, and Janina ...

Szepesi, who grew up in Slovakia and now lives in Frankfurt, Germany, is one of the last survivors of Auschwitz alive today. Just 50 of them are expected to be present on Monday at the camp in ...

As the grandchild of an Auschwitz survivor and the current director ... and focus on including students from a wide variety of backgrounds and schools. Our goal is to create and nurture allies.

This interactive map explores the complex and surprising evolution of Auschwitz, the scene of one of the worst crimes in human history. This was where more than a million men, women and children ...

(CNN) — World leaders will be in Poland Monday to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Britain’s ...

Only gradually does the movie reveal that this family’s seemingly idyllic homeis located directly adjacent to the Auschwitz death camp — and that the patriarch is none other than Rudolf Höss ...

In addition to these death camps, German authorities decided to equip two existing camps—Majdanek, near Lublin, and Auschwitz, not far from Krakow—with gas chambers for mass killing. Majdanek and ...