Some 33 years after the Nazi war criminal known as “the angel of death of Auschwitz” drowned in Brazil, (where he fled after World War II), 31 documents signed by Mengele and some 4,000 pages ...

A stranger’s kindness and pure luck saved Mindu Hornick’s life when she walked through the gates of Auschwitz. Surviving Auschwitz and Neuengamme slave labour camp, now 95, it took 40 years ...

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 ...

“Auschwitz, on our outskirts, is the symbol of the greatest evil,” Hertig said. “But at the same time we want to show to others that Oswiecim is a town with an 800-year history that wants to ...

BERLIN (JTA) — An Israeli couple held in Poland admitted that they stole historical objects while visiting the Auschwitz memorial. Several items that had belonged to prisoners at the death camp ...

"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 ...

At every turn of this sprawling, desolate prison, death stares you in the face. Auschwitz did not just fall from the sky. It was a plan hatched by history’s most wicked minds, a network of ...

The Auschwitz death camp lives in the Jewish mind ... This is why, when Matisyahu performed at the 2011 Oswiecim Life Festival and Polish Radio sent me to cover it, my excitement was mixed with ...