IN 1944, aged just 16, Harry Haft was forced into a concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. To survive the Holocaust, the teenager was told to, literally, fight for his life. For the ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Oded Balilty started with the AP as a freelancer in Jerusalem in 2002. He became a full-time staffer in 2005 and won the Pulitzer in ’07 for ...

In late February 1945, among the first reports on the horrors of Auschwitz was one by a Polish officer, Lt. Wacław Lipiński, ...

When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the soldiers encountered unimaginable horrors, including mass graves, the smoldering ...

Nina Angelo wants her Greek Jew father's story as an Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoner to be remembered through her book "Don't Cry ...

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

In all, the Nazi regime murdered 6 million Jews from all over Europe, annihilating two-thirds of Europe’s Jews and one-third ...

Survivors of Auschwitz, where the Nazis murdered more than 1.1 million people, urged world leaders to be vigilant against a dangerous rise in antisemitism and extremism during a ceremony commemorating ...

Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess oversaw the slaughter of around 1.1 million Jews, along with 20,000 gypsies and tens of thousands of Polish and Russian political prisoners. Metres away, his family — ...

A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism ...

M onday, Jan. 27, marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Ten days prior to the ...

The Taoiseach joined other world leaders at a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi ...