Before the Nazis chose Oswiciem as the site of the infamous death camp, Jews thrived in the city for half a millennium. Now, ...

Gut's grandmother survived Auschwitz. In 2023, Weisz-Gut moved to the town where the concentration camp is located.

HOW COULD HE GO TO POLAND? What the heck was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doing in Poland? Poland was marking the 80th ...

Oswiecim has more than eight centuries of history, and some are growing resentful that the world knows little about them ...

Survivors of the Nazi's notorious Auschwitz death camp are taking center stage at the memorial service to mark 80 years since ...

Auschwitz survivors have warned of the rising antisemitism and hatred in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders ...

Earlier this month, the Polish government pledged not to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he attended next Monday's Auschwitz ...

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

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.

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, perished during World War II ...

The ceremony is widely regarded as the last major observance likely to see a significant number of survivors in attendance.

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