The word “Auschwitz” has come to mean more than just the concentration camp in Poland. It’s shorthand for the horrors of the Holocaust, and proof of man’s capacity for extreme inhumanity to man. But ...

Nearly all the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in occupied Poland, were murdered – either sent to the gas chambers or worked to death. Life expectancy in many of these camps ...

Listed on the UNESCO international list of world heritage sites, the museum was created by an act of the Polish parliament on July 2, 1947, and contains both Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz II-Birkenau ...

Auschwitz survivors warned against increasing antisemitism across the globe while they gathered with world leaders at the site of the death camp for the 80th anniversary of their liberation. Monday’s ...

With Auschwitz initially built for an altogether different purpose than the gassing of the Jews. And the Nazis evolving their wider policy of killing in ways that defy the popular myth of the SS as ...

Eighty years after Auschwitz was liberated from the Nazis, Jews who make a pilgrimage there can eat kosher food. A mile from the concentration camp, visitors will be able to buy packaged, shelf-stable ...