Like Canadians at Vimy Ridge in 1917, Jews died there for Western civilization.

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Oded Balilty started with the AP as a freelancer in Jerusalem in ...

Oswiecim has more than eight centuries of history, and some are growing resentful that the world knows little about them ...

Before the Nazis chose Oswiciem as the site of the infamous death camp, Jews thrived in the city for half a millennium. Now, ...

HOW COULD HE GO TO POLAND? What the heck was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doing in Poland? Poland was marking the 80th ...

I have written before of my impressions of the history of World War II and especially Auschwitz. This past week was a ...

Polish President Andrzej Duda remembered the victims of the Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, as 80th anniversary commemorations got under way on Monday. "We Poles, on whose land occupied ...

Established in 1940 as a holding camp for political prisoners in occupied Poland, Auschwitz (the German name for the town of Oświęcim) evolved into the largest and most notorious Nazi ...

Survivors of the Nazi's notorious Auschwitz death camp are taking center stage at the memorial service to mark 80 years since ...

That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public exclusion to eventual internment to finally extermination. Millions of ...