The 19 harrowing paintings were created after the war by former inmate Edith Birkin, a Czech jew who was sent to the camp in 1944 and who moved to England after she was liberated.

American civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson prayed and mourned at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday as he joined survivors paying homage to an often-forgotten genocide — that of the Roma people — on a key 75th anniversary. In addition to the 6 million Jews killed in death camps such as Auschwitz, the Nazis killed other […]

The world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday amid a revival of hate-inspired violence and signs that younger generations know less and less about the genocide.

Anyone who knew Lale and Gita Sokolov well was aware their forearms had been inked with their history. Each of them bore a blue five-figure tattoo identifying them as Holocaust survivors

While in operation between June 1940 and January 1945 only 196 of the 928 men, women and children who attempted to escape from Auschwitz concentration camp were successful.

Lale Sokolov – born Ludwig ‘Lale’ Eisenberg to Jewish parents in Slovakia in 1916 – met his wife Gita Fuhrmannova when he tattooed her at Auschwitz in 1942 while they were both imprisoned there.

At 26 years old, Marcel Nadjari, a Greek Jew, was one of many at Auschwitz forced to escort fellow Jews to gas chambers and aid with the disposal of their bodies during World War II.

The Italian firefighters who completed the harrowing task of pulling hundreds of refugees from a shipwreck have said the image of the bodies, crammed in like concentration camp train, still torments them.

Prosecutors want to put Helma M. in the dock for her role in the efficient running of the complex in Nazi occupied Poland where an estimated 1.2 million people were murdered during WW2.

More than 70 years after the end of World War II, Reinhold Hanning admitted to a German court that he knew prisoners were being shot, gassed and cremated at the death camp in occupied Poland. Hanning said he had been "silent all my life" about the atrocities he witnessed at the camp where more than […]