The head of Rome’s Jewish community and four other Italians were questioned by police after triggering an alarm at the visitor’s center at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Riccardo Pacifici, whose…
First as a child prisoner of just 4 years old. He has only fragments of memories from his time here: Staring out at barbed wire, running down concrete stairs, hiding…
On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops moved through the town of Oswiecim, Poland, and liberated the concentration camp complex of Auschwitz. In the weeks before, the majority of the prisoners…
On Jan. 27, 1945, soldiers of the Soviet army entered the gates of Auschwitz in southern Poland, liberating the largest and most notorious network of Nazi concentration camps. Just 7,000…
TEL AVIV, Israel Shortly after the Nazi invasion of what was then Hungary in May 1944, Renee Ganz’s family and most of the 25,000 Jews in the city of Oradea…
Rozalia was living with her family in Krakow when Adolf Hitler’s troops marched into Poland in the fall of 1939. “Krakow was such a beautiful city before the Nazis came….
The voice of Auschwitz survivors praying for their murdered loved ones reverberated Monday amid the barracks and barbed wire of the former Nazi death camp, with one survivor crying out…
www.nbcnews.com: LONDON — Of all the stories of survival from the Auschwitz concentration camp, Gena Turgel’s is one of the most astonishing.
A black-and-white photo shows the 16-year-old ballerina at her prime, mere months before her world would be destroyed. She is dressed in a bathing suit, smiling radiantly while performing a…
OSWIECIM, Poland — For what is likely to be the last time, a large number of the survivors of the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz will gather next week under…
In the midst of that horrorindeed, in perhaps the most horrific place a Jew could land at the timeprisoners sought to take their images back and made sure that art…
But Greenfield’s success follows tremendous adversity. As a teenager, he survived two horrific years in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and lost his parents and siblings at the hands of…