First organized as a “racial experiment,” a contingent of Black Americans began training to be aviators at Tuskegee, Alabama, ...
Like Canadians at Vimy Ridge in 1917, Jews died there for Western civilization.
It's one thing to read about years gone by between the pages of a fascinating history book. But nothing brings the past back ...
The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has ...
entered the Nazi complex to help care for the survivors. In his diary of what he saw that day, Dr. Chowaniec described his first view of Block 11, one of the 28 barracks that comprised the oldest ...
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.
Holocaust survivors and others gathered in southern Poland on Monday to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz, 80 years ago. Some 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered at the Nazi ...
Auschwitz survivors warned of the dangers of rising antisemitism on Monday, as they marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp by Soviet troops in one of the last ...
Emotional Auschwitz survivors used the 80th anniversary ... to avoid postwar anti-Semitism in his homeland, took a wider view. “I implore everyone to intensify their efforts in countering ...
Auschwitz, located in southern Poland, became a symbol of the Holocaust's brutality. Around 1.1 million people were murdered there, the majority being Jews. Other victims included Poles, Roma ...
“It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return to Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
More than 1 million people -- mostly Jews -- were murdered at the infamous World War II Nazi death camp. As RFE/RL's Una Cilic reports, survivors and their descendants used the solemn occasion to ...