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

The ceremony is widely regarded as the last major observance likely to see a significant number of survivors in attendance.

The main observances take place at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered over a million people ...

Nazi German forces murdered some 1.1 million people at the site in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during ...

Auschwitz-Birkenau, liberated on January 27, 1945, was the largest extermination camp during the Nazi era. At least 1.1 million people were murdered there by the Nazis, more than in any other site ...

Polish President Andrzej Duda remembered the victims of the Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, as 80th ...

Monday marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day and people around the world are marking 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp. At San Francisco's Legion ...

He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...

The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the ...

World leaders and a dwindling group of survivors joined in a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the ...

Leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU ... If the bill had passed, it would have been the first time in Germany's post-World War II history that a mainstream party relied on extremist ...

has long courted controversy by calling for Germany to stop focusing on atoning for its World War II crimes, including the genocide of six million European Jews. One of its former leaders ...