As the world marks the 80th year of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, author Thomas Harding is one of the few people who met the family of the mastermind of Auschwitz. Here, he recalls exactly wh ...

Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp, was liberated 80 years ago. Here’s a brief description of the liberating troops discovered.

Once a 'paradise' occupied by commandant Rudolf Höss, the center will now host research, education, professional training, policy advocacy, and art ...

What Alfred didn't know was that Westerbork was a camp whose inmates were to be transported to Auschwitz. Wolfgang would ...

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum ... Maciek Nabrdalik for The New York Times On a table in a downstairs corner room that Commandant Höss used as a home office lies a heap of torn and crumpled ...

And much was done to preserve the household’s tranquility, given its immediate neighbor: the largest and most notorious Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz. Inside the family home, Rudolf Höss ...

After leaving the ‘disinfection’ room, they were separated ... As Red Army troops approached the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp from the east, Nazi soldiers attempted to cover up their crimes.