Auschwitz main camp was on the banks of the Sola River in Southern Poland. And it was here that the Commandant, SS Lieutenant Colonel Rudolf Höss, worked hand in hand with businessmen to grow a ...

They were weeping, embracing us and kissing us." Amongst the prisoners in Auschwitz main camp were several hundred children, many of them twins, who had been the subject of Nazi medical experiments.

The remains of four victims of a Nazi concentration camp for children that was dubbed 'Little Auschwitz' have been ... The children were isolated from the main ghetto which housed adults by ...

As the map demonstrates, the Auschwitz complex served as a concentration camp and an industrial centre for the exploitation of brutal slave labour - but it was the perpetration of genocide that ...

He supports the preservation of the Auschwitz main camp, although he acknowledges it is a “kind of theme park, cleaned up for tourists.” In any event, it’s a fully equipped museum ...

The camp's brick buildings now house exhibits that document the grim history of the Holocaust.Personal belongings, such as shoes and suitcases, recovered from victims, offer a poignant reminder of the ...

An Israeli high school student was detained by Polish police and fined for allegedly making a Nazi salute during a school trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland, Hebrew media ...

In 2015, 94-year-old former German SS officer Oskar Gröning went on trial in his home country, charged with complicity in the murder of three hundred thousand Jews at Auschwitz in 1944.

The truth about the Auschwitz death camp was one of the most closely guarded secrets of the Third Reich. Prisoners who tried to escape were killed in public as an example to other inmates.

That's because Denis also claimed to have broken in to the Nazi concentration camp itself. Why would anyone do such a thing and was it even possible? Witness to Auschwitz examines the controversy ...

As a novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Sky Atlantic ... section, which is one way to describe a romance set in a concentration camp. Now this work of historical fiction is a six-part TV drama ...