Furst, now 92, is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors able to share first-person accounts of the horrors they endured, as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the ...

Image Grazyna Jurczak lived for 42 years in the three-story house overlooking a former gas chamber and a gallows at Auschwitz. It was, she said, “a great place to raise children.”Credit ...

A survivor brings a candle to the Death Wall at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination ...

SS soldiers threw open the doors of the cattle car, where he was crammed in with his mother, father, brother, and more than 80 others. He remembers the tall chimneys of the crematoria, flames roaring ...

First established in 1940, Auschwitz had a concentration camp, large gas chambers, and crematoria. More than 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly one million Jews.

King Charles joined world and religious leaders to hear harrowing tales from survivors returning to mourn those who perished ...

Like the overwhelming majority of the more than 1.1 million Jews who were sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis, they had been murdered in gas chambers and then incinerated in industrial-strength crematoria.

Most were sent straight to gas chambers — Auschwitz operated ... Eleven women died during the first night shift in that room. Leaving Auschwitz Nearly all of the surviving Auschwitz prisoners ...

At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair ... A visitor reflects in a window of a room with clothing representing the undressing ...