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.

A 42-mile trip west of Kraków, the brutal, crushing concentration and extermination camps of Auschwitz ... additional gas chamber and crematoria ruins, opt for the six-hour study tour; each ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has been 80 years since the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration complex. First established in 1940, Auschwitz had a concentration camp, large gas chambers ...

It has been 80 years since the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration complex. First established in 1940, Auschwitz had a concentration camp, large gas chambers, and ...

Image Grazyna Jurczak lived for 42 years in the three-story house overlooking a former gas chamber and a gallows at Auschwitz. It was, she said, “a great place to raise children.”Credit ...

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 ...