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

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Oded Balilty started with the AP as a freelancer in Jerusalem in ...

A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to ...

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

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — During World War II, men, women and children were transported from across Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau, horrendous journeys in which they were packed into cramped cattle cars.

By Barbara Erling and Kuba Stezycki OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) -Auschwitz survivors were being joined by world leaders on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death ...

Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025.

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau ... The Hearst Foundations has awarded the Seattle Art Museum with a grant.

The bright yellow Zoo Pet Shop is hard to miss for anyone driving along one of the main streets that leads to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum on the outskirts of Oswiecim, Poland.

Nazi German forces murdered some 1.1 million people at the site in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during ...

In all, the Nazi regime murdered 6 million Jews from all over Europe, annihilating two-thirds of Europe's Jews and one-third of all Jews worldwide. In 2005, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as ...

A view onto the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum can be seen from the former house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Sunday Jan. 26, 2025. Jacek Purski, the director of ...