The Birkenau Church is in violation of a 1972 UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Culture and Natural Heritage. Auschwitz is on that heritage list.

The Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau is an enduring symbol of the Holocaust. Part of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s “Final Solution” plan for genocide against European Jews, the ...

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 ...

Of the more than 1.3 million people imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1.1 million -- mainly Jews -- perished, either from asphyxiation in the gas chambers or from starvation, exhaustion and disease.

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 ...

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

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, living survivors, their families and communities are marking the 80th anniversary of the ...

Family photo of S Slomka, the photographer's great-grandfather, with his wife and three children, 1929. S was deported to Auschwitz on convoy no. 36, September 23, 1942.