Nazi German forces murdered some 1.1 million people at the site in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during World War II.
During this week of International Holocaust Remembrance, Resistance: They Fought Back, an important new Holocaust documentary is on PBS. A discussion I led is on YouTube ...
"We believe that we can teach empathy, understanding, and to teach people to be upstanders, not bystanders," said the director of the Institute for Holocaust Education.
Inside the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, the soldiers liberated ... this was more than a personal journey of memory and reflection. It was a moral responsibility. “They have to know ...
Eighty years on, Berlin seeks to strengthen and preserve the nation's memory culture amid attempts ... Auschwitz concentration and extermination camps, and the commemoration is central to ...
Watch as Holocaust survivors returned to Auschwitz in Poland on Monday, 27 January, marking 80 years since the concentration ...
Elderly camp survivors, some wearing striped scarves that recall their prison uniforms, walked to the the Death Wall, where ...
Senot said her older sister, so frail and gaunt she was barely recognizable, made her vow to pass on the memory of the camp, a macabre monument to Nazi Germany’s genocide of the Jews.
Survivors of Auschwitz, who were so very young when they were deported to the labour and death camps under the Nazi regime, but for whom the memory remains so vivid, have been recounting their ...
The train car is dedicated to the memory of the approximately 420,000 Hungarian Jews who were deported to Auschwitz. Approximately 1.1 million people were murdered at the concentration camp from 1940 ...