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 ...

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 ...

About 50 survivors of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau will return to the site on Monday to remember the day it was ...

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 ...

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 ...

It functioned as the largest extermination and forced labour camp in the Nazi system, equipped with gas chambers and crematoria. Along with Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads, Auschwitz was ...