When Jerry Wartski saw the infamous gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau for the first time, which ironically read “Arbeit Macht Frei” – or German for “Work will set you free” – it was moments before his ...

Young twins sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau were sometimes spared immediate death for a gruesome fate: to become the subjects of medical experiments by Nazi doctor ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP/CBS) — Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners commemorated the 78th anniversary Friday of the Nazi German death camp's liberation, some expressing horror that war has ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 27, 1945, during World War II, Soviet ...

"We tell these stories because perhaps we know that not to listen, not to want to know, would lead you to indifference, and indifference is never the answer." - Elie Wiesel, author and Auschwitz ...

They replace the March of the Living’s tradition of placing messages on plaques on the former concentration camp’s train tracks. (JTA) — Virtual memorial plaques were projected on to the “Arbeit Macht ...

Drone video shows the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as it is today - 70 years after it was liberated by Soviet troops. The camp in Poland is now maintained as a World Heritage Site and ...

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 strange heaviness hung in the air at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, about an hour and a half east of Krakow, Poland. Visitors slipped quietly in and out of a series of large brick buildings, ...

MAINZ, Germany — Catching the last surviving Nazi war criminals isn't easy. In the past, officials have had to dig through piles of yellowing and dusty documents, and even then the suspects often ...

The request comes just one day the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. released a statement saying the playing wildly popular app was "not appropriate in the museum, which is a memorial ...