OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism, and is introducing it to ...

David Wisnia from Poland was a prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex; Likewise, Helen Zipora "Zippy" Spitzer from Slovakia was also a prisoner.  But neither of them was an ...

While writing her new memoir, How to Share an Egg, author and journalist Bonny Reichert discovers the family dinner table is ...

The former Polish residence of the Nazi commandant at Auschwitz will soon open its doors to the public as a center dedicated ...

Australia was "on everyone's lips … for all the wrong reasons" at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day event in Auschwitz last week, the nation's antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal says.

The denial by governments, the press, and citizens, of atrocities done to the Jews, and others, under the Third Reich, ...

In recent years, Polish diplomats have successfully reduced the use of incorrect phrases like 'Polish death camps' in foreign ...

The introduction of a legal component into the already complex and emotionally charged mosaic of memory in Poland, instead of ...

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

The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has ...

For my bat mitzvah, my parents surprised me with a stop in Amsterdam — en route home from Israel to New Jersey — to visi. It ...

Auschwitz was established in 1940 in the suburbs of Oswiecim, Poland. During its first year, authorities cleared 15 square miles for the camp. Source: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ...