After 40 years of trying, Gary Sokolov finally saw the death camp where his parents met – he felt terror but also a sense of gratitude ...

On Monday, world leaders will gather at Auschwitz-Birkenau to mark 80 years since the camp's liberation. One survivor has ...

She had come a long way from her home in Virginia to testify in the trial of Reinhold Hanning, a former Nazi SS guard. The trial was off to a late start because Hanning, 94, was waiting for a ...

In addition to physical exercises used to torture prisoners, football was played in Nazi concentration camps. Boxing matches were literally a matter of life and death for some inmates.

Auschwitz was at the centre of the Nazi campaign ... the showers for "delousing" - a euphemism used for the gas chambers. Guards from the so-called "Hygienic Institute" would then drop powerful ...

Stratford author Nicholas Milton was there to sign copies of his new book, The Birdman of Auschwitz. The fascinating work ...

Since Auschwitz was liberated in January 1945 ... He wrote that it was “to protect the mental health” of his guards that he decided to utilize Zyklon B, an insecticide he used to murder ...

She would always pluck four and five-leaf clovers when she saw them, a hardwired habit from her days in captivity, it transpired, when giving them to Nazi guards might secure extra soup or bread. Both ...