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 ...

But the guard who could have killed the brothers let them go. Over the course of the war, the family endured the horrors of six concentration camps. At the second, in Latvia, Rosa and Manfred ...

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

She was soon making the same journey. Had the Auschwitz guards known Anka was pregnant, she would have been sent straight to the gas chambers but, instead, she was taken to a slave factory near ...

Sokolov as a baby with his parents, Lali (left) and Gita. Lali tattooed Gita with her prisoner number and befriended Auschwitz guards in order to get letters to her Credit: AETN/Synchronicity ...

Established in 1940 in the sleepy Polish town of Oswiecim, by January, 1945 Auschwitz was a sprawling, enormous camp filled with tens of thousands of prisoners and thousands of guards. When it ...

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 ...

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 ...