The Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was liberated 80 years ago, is an enduring symbol of the Holocaust. Part of ...

About 110 Sonderkommando members survived Auschwitz-Birkenau, most of them Polish Jews. In most cases they were desperate to forget these horrors - few wrote about their ordeal.

The torment endured by the Sonderkommando, forced, on pain of their own immediate death, to assist in the killing process, is one of the most shocking parts of the history of Auschwitz.

ROME (JTA) – Shlomo Venezia, a Holocaust survivor who wrote about his experiences in an Auschwitz Sonderkommando unit and spent years bearing personal testimony to the Shoah, has died.

On December 8, 1942, he and his family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. On the same day, as his wife and children were killed, he was assigned to a sonderkommando unit in crematorium III.

A chilling documentary for which Holocaust survivor Henryk Mandelbaum returned to Auschwitz to talk about the horrific year he spent as a ‘‘Sonderkommando’’, a slave labourer forced to ...

Auschwitz.org Deported to the camp from Paris in 1943, Olère was forced into the Sonderkommando - a unit which collected corpses after gassing. Auschwitz.org Olère shows the cruel Nazi slogan ...

President Andrzej Duda had called for a special exemption to let Netanyahu visit Poland for the Auschwitz memorial service, which will take place eight decades after Allied forces seized the ...

Five years ago, only about 200 hundred survivors made it to the Auschwitz liberation anniversary ... he was the last surviving member of the Sonderkommando, a group of prisoners forced to dispose ...

At Auschwitz, by mid January 1945 ... by no more than 4 members of the SS - and a hundred prisoners of the Sonderkommando. Whitney Harris, Member of the Prosecuting team, Nuremberg Trial ...