In 1944, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Their harrowing testimonies and detailed sketches of the camp's mass extermination practices exposed the ...

A 3-D model of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp which can be toured with a virtual-reality headset. Ralf Breker's Team / Bavarian State Criminal Investigation Office Oct. 8, 2016, 7:37 AM ...

He had been ordered to repair the roof of the Auschwitz -Birkenau crematorium. While he worked, Dennis Urstein could see and smell the burning, rotting bodies of his fellow prisoners, set afire in ...

The crematorium near gas chamber one at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz I in Oswiecim, Poland, seen on Dec. 8, 2019. On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet Red Army liberated the Auschwitz death ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum has hosted 4 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2005 Forum. The year with the most events was 2019 with one ...

As of June 3, the missing objects have been returned to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, where researchers will thoroughly document them so the items won’t go missing again.

These are the ruins of Birkenau’s four gas chambers and crematoriums, left just as they were when the retreating Nazis blew them up. Each crematorium was capable of burning 5,000 bodies per day.

József Debreczeni’s “Cold Crematorium” is one such treasure. It was published in 1950 in the former Yugoslavia, where its author, a Hungarian-language novelist and journalist, lived and ...