The three hostages emerged emaciated, with sunken eyes and sallow skin. They required assistance walking and could be seen ...

The villa of Rudolf Höss, Auschwitz’s longest-serving commandant, is being transformed into a research centre dedicated to ...

As the world marks the 80th year of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, author Thomas Harding is one of the few people who ...

In early June 1944 the train carrying 20-year-old Freda Wineman, her family and nearly a thousand other Jews from France passed under the red-brick guardhouse of Auschwitz Birkenau and down a ...

This seemingly ordinary house next door serves as a chilling reminder of "just how close heaven can be to hell on earth." ...

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

And much was done to preserve the household’s tranquility, given its immediate neighbor: the largest and most notorious Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz. Inside the family home, Rudolf Höss ...

The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has ...

Michael Bornstein, who survived for seven months inside Auschwitz as a child, said that “nothing will be easy about returning” to the site. Streams of mourners young and old laid down candles ...

Auschwitz survivors have warned of the rising antisemitism and hatred in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s ...