Historical Background Auschwitz, located in Poland, stands as a chilling testament to one of humanity's darkest chapters.

Overlooking a gas chamber and a crematorium at Auschwitz, a large house inhabited by the Nazi death camp's commandant is to become a centre for the global fight against anti-Semitism and extremism.

Kun and his brother Istvan survived Auschwitz in part due to the fact that Dr. Mengele believed them to be twins and thus ...

More than 1.1 million people died in these camps' barracks, hospitals, gas chambers and labor fields. Travelers say the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum is one of Europe's best preserved ...

Encouraged by the Nazis to form marching bands to foster the myth death camps were places of industry, inmates with musical ...

Article continues below Surviving Auschwitz and Neuengamme slave labour ... Those not viewed as useful were sent straight to the gas chambers. “A lady in front of us had a daughter about our ...

Those who were deemed to be losing weight too quickly were sent to the gas chamber, Susan recalls. Image: Prisoners from Hungary arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp in spring 1945.

For Auschwitz was the Holocaust. As was every other camp, ghetto, piece of woodland or mobile gas chamber where, collectively six million Jewish people were rounded up, brutalised and slaughtered ...