Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly a million Jews. On the day of liberation 80 years ago, only 7,000 were saved.

At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal belongings of people killed there. The “Arbeit macht frei” (work will set you free ...

Survivors and relatives attend a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27. 2025.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty) Marian ...

World leaders rubbed shoulders with 56 survivors of Hitler's death camp as they marked 80 years since its liberation.

By Barbara Erling and Kuba Stezycki OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) -Auschwitz survivors were being joined by world leaders on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death ...

King Charles, Prince William and Kate Middleton are leading the royal family’s commemorations of the victims of the Holocaust on Holocaust Memorial Day.

Polish President Andrzej Duda remembered the victims of the Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, as 80th anniversary commemorations got under way on Monday. "We Poles, on whose land occupied ...

The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has ...

Around 50 survivors of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz gathered together for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp.

“God suffered a great deal in every single person who was here. God suffered a great deal in this place,” Cardinal Rys added.

Spain’s state-run news agency EFE has come under criticism for referring to the former Nazi German concentration camp Auschwitz as “el campo polaco de Auschwitz” (“the Polish camp of ...

In all, the Nazi regime murdered 6 million Jews from all over Europe, annihilating two-thirds of Europe's Jews and one-third of all Jews worldwide. In 2005, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as ...