Amid the dark lingering shadow of Auschwitz, Holocaust survivor Susan Pollack's life has been a story of unimaginable loss, ...

Tomorrow marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi concentration and death camp where more ...

These 'Sonderkommando' had to perform nightmarish tasks like clearing the gas chambers of bodies. For the BBC TV series on Auschwitz I wrote and produced 20 years ago, several former members of ...

With the world marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet troops on 27 January here is its history, ...

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 ...

Eichmann was in charge of organizing the “Final Solution” to exterminate Jews in the Holocaust, and was hanged in Israel on ...

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

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.

WARSAW — The world’s focus will be on the remaining survivors of Nazi Germany’s atrocities on Monday as world leaders and royalty join them for commemorations of the 80th anniversary of 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 ...