On the 80th anniversary of its liberation, survivors of the Holocaust gathered at the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Of the more than six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, 1.1 ...
The children played with turtles, cats, rode horses and swam in the nearby river. Meanwhile, the concentrationcamp’s chimneys spewed smoke as other families were pushed into the gas chambers.
An offering at the death wall marks the start of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Sprouting grass mixed with mud and remnants of snow on the unpaved sides of Auschwitz. The sun warms the body despite the ...