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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world’s focus will be on the remaining survivors of Nazi Germany’s atrocities on Monday as world leaders and royalty join them ...

Journalist and author Arnaud Nemet tells the story of his great-grand-aunt, Bella Ariel, a celebrated 1930s model whose life was both dazzling and tragic. A Jewish immigrant from Constantinople, she ...

The Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkinau is an enduring symbol of the Holocaust. Part of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution" plan of genocide against European Jews, the camp operated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eight Americans and one Canadian were arrested on Monday for unlawfully entering the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration ...

The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service will grant access to the files on Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, after years of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- On Holocaust Remembrance Day, living survivors, their families and communities are marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Ida Kersz was separated from ...

On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in German-occupied Poland. Soldiers freed more than 7,000 people who had been held at the camp by Nazi Germany.

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 ...