Sources: Jewish Virtual Library ... In 1942, two farmhouses just outside the camp were turned into gas chambers. But as Auschwitz-Birkenau became a central location for mass killing, these ...

Those who were deemed to be losing weight too quickly were sent to the gas chamber, Susan recalls. Image: Prisoners from Hungary arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp in spring 1945.

Some saw their mum and dads dragged away to their deaths from their homes, others watched their loved ones get sent to the gas chamber at Auschwitz. One told how she watched her mother shot dead ...

An Auschwitz survivor who was just 13 when she ... Those who were deemed to be losing weight too quickly were sent to the gas chamber, Susan recalls. "You don't think that you live in a world ...

Oswiecim, Poland — A memorial service to mark 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops ... Jews killed on an industrial scale in gas chambers, but the Germans also murdered ...

She died in an Auschwitz gas chamber on the same day she arrived at the camp. The German philosopher saint was canonized on Oct. 11, 1998, and proclaimed co-patron of Europe in 1999 by Pope John ...

In 1942, Höss established and helmed the plans for the Auschwitz gas chambers and crematoriums, including the use of Zyklon B gas. Höss was arrested in 1946, tried by a Polish court and ...

Its mission is to preserve the objects there and the memory of what happened there; it organizes guided tours ... Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas ...