Auschwitz

In February of 1944, 2 young Jewish girls were removed from their French school and deported to Auschwitz. The dolls taken from them were recently donated to the Shoah Memorial in Paris.

A cup in the collection of the Auschwitz Museum was recently discovered to have a double bottom, and concealed inside the hidden compartment were a gold ring and a necklace.

A 94-year-old former SS sergeant went on trial Thursday in western Germany on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder

A 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served at the Auschwitz death camp was convicted Wednesday on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder and sentenced to four years in prison

Today 93, he goes on trial Tuesday in a state court in the northern city of Lueneburg on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder

Tomorrow, Jan. 27, is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the day the United Nations General Assembly designated by a resolution passed in 2005 for commemorating the Holocaust. I, along with many others, will be going to Auschwitz tomorrow to remember that liberation in the place where it happened.

Dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards collected millions of dollars in US Social Security benefits after being forced out of the United States.

Kathleen Sullivan was on a visit to Auschwitz with six atomic bomb survivors when the nuclear reactors in Fukushima failed.

When Premier Wen Jiabao chose to give remarks at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp, he was speaking to the Chinese people.

“Countries that have unleashed war and brought disaster upon humanity must approach history in an appropriate way, learning lessons from it. Only then, when they are able to admit to their crimes, to their guilt, can they be respected by the international community,” said Wen Jiabao while at Auschwitz.