The president of the International Auschwitz Committee on Friday called for proceedings to ban the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) "before it's too late. " Eva Umlauf, who survived the Nazi ...

The trial of German former SS officer Oskar Groening, dubbed the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz”, heard horrific descriptions Wednesday of the Nazi death camp, from prisoners’ arrivals to grisly “medical” ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will honour Holocaust victims on Friday with her first official visit to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, a Nazi German killing factory where more than 1.1 ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — A group of survivors of Nazi death camps marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II in a modest ceremony Saturday in ...

OSWIECIM, Poland, May 28 -- Pope Benedict XVI, a conscripted member of the Hitler Youth and the German army as a teenager, walked through the gate of the death camp at Auschwitz on Sunday and somberly ...

A far-right Polish lawmaker has sparked an uproar with the shocking declaration that “Poland is for Poles, not Jews,” delivered outside the Auschwitz concentration camp. Speaking to reporters on ...

On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet Red Army liberated the Auschwitz death camp in German-occupied Poland. The Germans had already fled westward, leaving behind the bodies ...

MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - His jacket sparkling with war medals, 96-year old David Dushman holds back the tears as he remembers the eyes of emaciated prisoners at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz ...

World leaders and survivors of the Holocaust are marking Monday's 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. OSWIECIM, Poland -- Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp gathered Monday ...