The images show thousands of Hungarian Jews after arriving at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1944. They went on display today 81 Old Brompton Road in south-west London.

The judgment came on Wednesday following an outcry from Holocaust survivors who chastised the auctioneers in Gilo, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, for trying to flog the kit.

Lily Ebert, 97, was on one of last trains to enter Auschwitz carrying Hungarian Jews in 1944, enduring months at Birkenau before being transported to Altenburg, a sub-camp of Buchenwald.

The pontiff listened intently as a Polish priest who accompanied Lidia Maksymowicz, 80, told him of her story at a general audience in the Vatican’s San Damaso Courtyard.

The SS Home of Comradeship provided a welcome retreat for German soldiers stationed at the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, but for inmates, it was a site of degradation and despair.

The victims at Auschwitz were among 6million Jews who were murdered by Adolf Hitler’s forces between 1941 and 1945. Their lives are commemorated today on Holocaust Memorial Day.

The director of the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland has offered to serve time for a Nigerian child who was convicted of blasphemy and ordered to spend ten years in prison by a Sharia court . In an open letter, Piotr Cywinski asked Nigeria’s President to intervene and pardon 13-year-old Omar Farouq for the conviction. “As […]

A nurse captured the photo of a woman wearing an American flag mask and holding a sign in German that read "Arbeit macht frei," or "Work will set you free."

Steven Frank, 84, and Yvonne Bernstein, 82, were both photographed by the Duchess of Cambridge in a series of images that were released to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

Four U.S. rabbis led by New York’s Avi Weiss gathered on Sunday in front of a church next to the Nazi German death camp at Birkenau in Poland arguing for its removal from a site where more than a million Jews were murdered. World leaders will gather on Monday at Birkenau and the nearby Auschwitz […]