This is Auschwitz-Birkenau, a place where the Nazis treated people like animals caged in by electrified barbed wire, where ...

The memoir’s title is unsettling: “Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz.” What’s a cold crematorium? It’s what concentration camp prisoners cynically named the barracks ...

Its architect was Karl Bischoff, who designed Auschwitz by working backward from his estimate of the maximum incineration capacity at the crematoria: Bischoff’s figure of 4,756 bodies in a 24 ...

The Auschwitz camp was completed in 1941 ... “People here smelled the smoke from the crematoria, but what could a single unarmed person do against an army?” she asked.

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today ... a wall where the Nazi German forces shot prisoners to death, the gas chambers and crematoria where they were gassed to ...

Most were sent straight to gas chambers — Auschwitz operated five gas chambers and crematoria at its height. Thousands of people were crammed into gas chambers and killed by poisonous gas piped ...

By the winter of 1941, the Nazis had constructed their first gas chamber and crematorium at Auschwitz. Nazi leaders met in January 1942 at the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the industrial ...

Overlooking a gas chamber and a crematorium at Auschwitz, a large house inhabited by the Nazi death camp's commandant is to become a centre for the global fight against anti-Semitism and extremism.The ...

By the end of 1942 there were four separate gas chambers and crematoria. Some of the blocks for the Nazis' prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau are still intact The first mass deportations of Jews to ...

That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public exclusion to eventual internment to finally extermination. Millions of ...