Officials have commemorated the 85th anniversary of the first deportation of Polish prisoners to the Nazi German Auschwitz ...

An eerie treasure has been uncovered underneath the floorboards at the Auschwitz concentration camp — 35 well-preserved handmade chess pieces. Renovators at Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau State ...

FILE - This June 1958 image shows buildings behind a defunct high voltage electric fence of the Nazi concentration camp ...

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Roughly 50 survivors of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps attended Monday’s commemoration. In recent days, hundreds of visitors from around the world have come to the former camp to ...

Meanwhile, the concentration camp’s chimneys spewed smoke as other families were pushed into the gas chambers. The former Höss residence lies just feet away from the Auschwitz concentration ...

Eighty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Nazi Germany’s biggest killing center, a new documentary screening on June 6 ...

Auschwitz the labor and death camp. The German authorities founded the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in the Polish town of Oswiecim after their invasion of Poland in 1939.

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