“Lovers in Auschwitz” and “Cold Crematorium,” two works by journalists published 74 years apart, offer different ways of representing the horrors of the Holocaust.

József Debreczeni’s “Cold Crematorium” is one such treasure. It was published in 1950 in the former Yugoslavia, where its author, a Hungarian-language novelist and journalist, lived and ...

Helen “Zippi” Tichauer came to Auschwitz in 1942, deported from her hometown of Bratislava, Slovakia. Courtesy of Michael Berkowitz. The new arrivals were stripped naked before being ...

József Debreczeni’s “Cold Crematorium,” obscure since it was originally published in 1950, retains its power to shock and enlighten.

The documentary series examines the startling true story of a cremator who went to prison for mishandling human remains ...

Tova Friedman says she's telling her story of having survived the Holocaust in her memoir, Daughter of Auschwitz, to honor the victims' memories. In a profound conversation with Scott Simon, she ...

He then visited the exhibition of the Auschwitz Memorial museum and a crematorium. He placed candles at the 'Death Wall', where German soldiers shot many inmates, and at a monument to victims in ...

I didn’t know about the crematorium. Now, now that I know about it, it hurts even more.” Despite the pain, eight decades later Ruth Cohen felt she had to return to Auschwitz.

Rudolf Höss, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, was hanged next to the Auschwitz crematorium in 1947 after being captured by Nazi hunters and tried for the part he played in the ...

Auschwitz was at the centre of the Nazi campaign to eradicate Europe's Jewish population, and almost one million of those who died there were Jews. Among the others who lost their lives were Poles ...

József Debreczeni’s memoir of imprisonment in the infamous Nazi camp unveils the cruelty through which a slave-labor workforce was made.