Recent documents released by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) have suggested a Polish prisoner of war in Auschwitz happily did the dirty work of the camp’s guards. It is the latest worrying ...

Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw's ...

That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public ...

Commemorations are being held Monday on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, part of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of the rising antisemitism and hatred they are witnessing in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the ...

World leaders rubbed shoulders with 56 survivors of Hitler's death camp as they marked 80 years since its liberation.

But Pilecki's smuggled reports about Auschwitz's horrors fell on deaf ears, and so he escaped in 1943 - only to be imprisoned by Poland's Communist regime after the war and then executed.

Earlier this month, the Polish government pledged not to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he attended next Monday's Auschwitz commemoration ceremony. DW looks back at the heated debate in Poland ...

Oswiecim, Poland — A memorial service to mark 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops was held Monday at the site of the former death camp, a ceremony that was widely treated ...

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Like Canadians at Vimy Ridge in 1917, Jews died there for Western civilization.

Auschwitz-80th Anniversary FILE - Part of the Auschwitz war crimes court inspects the former Nazi extermination center in Poland in Dec. 1964, where more than four million, mostly Jews ...