Upon seeing Auschwitz, Soviet General Vasily Petrenko, commander of the 107th Infantry Division, reportedly remarked, “I, who saw people dying every day, was shocked by the Nazis ...

“Auschwitz will stay with me until the last day, the last moment,” she said ... She clung to the hope of being reunited with her family. Liberation came; she later returned to Budapest ...

Entire families were wiped out. “For Jewish survivors, the liberation day is a very, very sad day,” Havi Dreifuss, a historian of the Holocaust at Tel Aviv University said in a recent online ...

In 2005, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Leon Weintraub ... in recognition of the Red Army liberation of the camp on Jan. 27, 1945.

during a ceremony to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Follow events in Poland and the UK here. We'll be ...

A ceremony has taken place in Bath to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and 80 years since the liberation of the largest Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Bath and North East Somerset ...

Holocaust Memorial Day - latest: Kate joins William at event as King issues warning on Auschwitz anniversary - Charles becomes first British head of state to visit former death camp, while it is ...