Before the Nazis chose Oswiciem as the site of the infamous death camp, Jews thrived in the city for half a millennium. Now, ...
A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to ...
The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has ...
Some of them encountered the single Jew who lives there. Hila Weisz-Gut, 34, moved from Israel to Oświęcim, the Polish town ...
Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly a million Jews. On the day of liberation 80 years ago, ...
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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 ...
Oswiecim has more than eight centuries of history, and some are growing resentful that the world knows little about them ...
At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal ...
The ceremony is widely regarded as the last major observance likely to see a significant number of survivors in attendance.
That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public ...
The event at the Museum of Jewish Heritage was one of the largest gatherings of survivors in the country and featured a debut ...