During World War II, men, women and children were transported from across Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau, horrendous journeys in which they were packed into cramped cattle cars.
Most of them were Jews, but countless thousands were Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities, homosexuals, politicial prisoners, and members of other minority groups. "The site was chosen because of ...
When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the ...
My father had entered Auschwitz the previous spring, together with his parents, his two brothers, and two of his three ...
Auschwitz-Birkenau was a concentration and extermination ... but 70 are known to have survived until the end of the war Belzec, near the station of the same name in Nazi-occupied Poland Belzec ...
On a frosty Polish winter evening, 96-year-old Esther Senot told the 100 or so shivering students at Auschwitz-Birkenau how she ... the nearby Pithiviers train station from where they were then ...
In 2015, Leo embarked on a tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial museum in 2015 when he met an archivist who revealed the collection of musical scores written and performed by the inmates.
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, survivor Tova Friedman says she thought she was the "only Jewish child in the world".
During World War II, men, women and children were transported from across Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau ... and running along family homes and a bus station, aging testaments of the horrors ...
Many of those rail tracks are abandoned but still exist within the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum ... running along family homes and a bus station, aging testaments of the horrors ...