And in 1944, the 25-year-old woman and her 17-year-old prisoner-paramour retreated to a hidden enclave built atop a pile of abandoned clothes below the smokestacks of Auschwitz’s Crematorium IV ...

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

Jona Laks could smell the burning flesh as she walked towards death at the Auschwitz crematorium. More than 75 years later, aged 90, she has returned to what was the most notorious Nazi death camp ...

People visit a surviving gas chamber and crematorium at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan ...

Prisoners at Auschwitz had to use ash from the crematorium for fertilizer in the fields. It was a harrowing experience. “Even the crematorium couldn’t burn little tiny bones,” Warshawski says.

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 ...

Second lady Karen Pence and Polish first lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence and Polish President Andrzej Duda visited the original gas chambers and crematoriums ...

Book from Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is Polish historian Igor Bartosik's ‘promise kept’ to survivor Henryk Mandelbaum, who was forced to work in gas chambers and crematoria ...

Auschwitz-Birkenau, situated on 472 acres, is located 31 miles west of Krakow in a suburb of Oswiecim, a small city in southern Poland. The conservators believe that the physical preservation of ...

Auschwitz 2 was its much bigger neighbor at Birkenau, where Dr. Josef Mengele carried out his gruesome medical experiments. Just before the camps were liberated, the Nazis blew up the crematoria ...