OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism, and is introducing it to ...

Poland has hosted a day of sombre ceremonies to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Nazis' most notorious death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

AUSCHWITZ — Given the number of world leaders and diplomats touring the house on the edge of the Auschwitz concentration camp once occupied by Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss, the property is ...

It was 1944, and the teenager, her mother and her father had just arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp and extermination centre in German-occupied Poland, after being rounded up with other ...

Though when it comes to commemorating the horrifying magnitude of what happened at Auschwitz, every passing year — including this, the 80th anniversary — is of equal importance. Not least ...

It was the greatest tragedy of the Holocaust. In just five years, over one million people were murdered at Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration camp. Auschwitz was established ...

For 80 years, the haunting melodies of Auschwitz lay buried in silence, hidden among the archives of one of history’s darkest chapters. Now, for the first time, this lost music – composed by ...

Jan. 27 marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops. Very few survivors are left as the world commemorates the ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu missed the ceremony celebrating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz as he deals with legal matters at home and the threat of arrest abroad.

King Charles has touched down in Poland to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, where he will attend commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. His first stop in Poland ...

Inside the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, the soldiers liberated roughly 7,000 prisoners who had been brutalized by a Nazi regime hell-bent on exterminating the Jewish people. The horrors ...

People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski ...