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 ...

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 ...

Eleven women died during the first night shift in that room. Leaving Auschwitz Nearly all of the surviving Auschwitz prisoners left the camp within four months. Most went to Displaced Person (DP ...

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum says it expects about 50 survivors of Auschwitz and other camps to attend the events on Monday afternoon, joined by political leaders and royalty. On this ...

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.

About 50 survivors of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau will return to the site on Monday to remember the day it was finally liberated on 27 January 1945. They will be joined by heads of ...

showing them the rooms in the three-story house that still need to be renovated. The project is being launched in partnership with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and under the patronage of UNESCO.

Auschwitz was the most infamous death camp. Together, the trains, gas chambers and crematoria were mechanized murder. Visitors can see displays of tons of human hair and a room filled floor to ...