Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, now 99, the only surviving member of the Women’s Orchestra at Auschwitz - Toby Trackman It is only human ...

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum announced the launch of a new digital replica of the concentration camp for filmmakers. Titled Picture from Auschwitz, ...

Growing up in Israel as the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Judith Richter was taught not to discuss the Shoah. While her mother was very open about her experiences, Richter’s father was more ...

Holocaust memorial sites around the world marked 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz death camp. A previous version of this video misstated the number of people killed at Auschwitz. An ...

"Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away" opens Oct. 18 at the Cincinnati Museum Center. The exhibit features 500 objects and 400 photos, many from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland. Stories ...

LONDON (RNS) — When the Roma violinist Jakub Segar arrived at Auschwitz, the concentration camp’s guards ordered him to strip and hand over all his belongings, including his violin. Unable to bear ...

The United Nations designates every Jan. 27, the day of liberation at Auschwitz, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day to memorialize the six million Jews and millions of other victims of Nazi ...

On this day in 1945, the Soviet Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp in occupied Poland, ending the Nazi's largest center of systematic slaughter. Roughly 7,000 prisoners, ...