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

“This location is a natural transportation hub ... However, these plans never materialized, Weisz-Gut noted. The Auschwitz camp was completed in 1941, and the town’s Jewish residents were ...

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

This included Auschwitz, located in southern Poland. A complex of more than 40 subcamps, it was the largest of all the Nazi camps. Concentration camps and extermination centers were part of the ...

Gut's grandmother survived Auschwitz. In 2023, Weisz-Gut moved to the town where the concentration camp is located.

Yad Vashem Way is the initiative of Mayor Eric Adams and Council Member Keith Powers, with the City Council’s endorsement.

SOUNDBITES IN ENGLISH OF JACEK PURSKI, DIRECTOR OF THE AUSCHWITZ CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON HATRED, EXTREMISM, AND RADICALISATION (ARCHER), WHICH WILL BE LOCATED IN THE HOUSE WHERE RUDOLF HOSS LIVED ...

The 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation by Soviet troops was observed on January 27, 2025. Survivors, now elderly, gathered at the former Nazi death camp for what many believe could be the last ...

Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly a million Jews. On the day of liberation 80 years ago, only 7,000 were saved.

Todd Ruderman’s visit to Auschwitz inspired him to share the experiences he had there. Years later, he is building the ...