Auschwitz main camp was on the banks of the Sola River in Southern Poland. And it was here that the Commandant, SS Lieutenant Colonel Rudolf Höss, worked hand in hand with businessmen to grow a ...

They were weeping, embracing us and kissing us." Amongst the prisoners in Auschwitz main camp were several hundred children, many of them twins, who had been the subject of Nazi medical experiments.

Historical Background Auschwitz, located in Poland, stands as a chilling testament to one of humanity's darkest chapters. Established in 1940 by Nazi Germany, it became the largest of the ...

Between the years 1942-1944 it became the main mass extermination camp where Jews were tortured and killed for their so-called racial origins. In addition to the mass murder of well over a million ...

As the map demonstrates, the Auschwitz complex served as a concentration camp and an industrial centre for the exploitation of brutal slave labour - but it was the perpetration of genocide that ...

Take a trip to Oswiecim, Poland, and either you will be “moved” to the core of your being with resolve to keep dictators out of power or you will be ...

The main observances take place at the site ... The German authorities founded the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in the Polish town of Oswiecim after their invasion of Poland in 1939.

“They will give the main addresses ... the infamous gate to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where, historians say, of the estimated 1.3 million people deported to the camp in Nazi-occupied Poland from ...

Series that marked the 60th anniversary Auschwitz's liberation, telling the concentration camp's story through interviews with former inmates and guards and dramatic re-enactments.

This chilling, vitally important documentary was produced to mark the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The film contains unedited, previously unavailable film ...

The WWE said they mistakenly used an image from the Auschwitz concentration camp in a promo for wrestler Dominik Mysterio last week Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine.

The truth about the Auschwitz death camp was one of the most closely guarded secrets of the Third Reich. Prisoners who tried to escape were killed in public as an example to other inmates.