Fürst and his family arrived at the entrance to Auschwitz on Nov. 3, 1944 — one day after Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the cessation of the use of the gas chambers ahea ...

HAIFA, Israel — Naftali Fürst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on Nov. 3, 1944. He was 12 years old. SS soldiers threw open the doors of the cattle ...

Weisz-Gut moved to Oświęcim to intern at the Auschwitz ... from the University of Haifa, and hopes to eventually move back to Israel. She sees the walls of the concentration camp from her ...

A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps as a young boy will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since the liberation of one of the Nazi's most ...

During their occupation of Poland (1939–1945), the Nazis murdered some three million Jews in the Holocaust — including many from the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp in southern Poland ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday said not inviting Russia to events marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp was “shameful.” “As for the ...

Turski survived the Lodz ghetto, where he and his family were forced to live, two death marches and imprisonment at the Nazi German concentration ... of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

Turski was a Polish Jew who survived imprisonment in the Auschwitz concentration camp and the subsequent deadly evacuation marches. After the war, he became a prominent Polish journalist ...