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Auschwitz

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The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was the main site for the extermination of Jews by the Nazis during the Holocaust. It was liberated on January 27, 1945.

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A railway and the entrance to Auschwitz

Polish government slammed for 'instrumentalizing' Holocaust

Polish government slammed for 'instrumentalizing' Holocaust

The ruling PiS party has released a video featuring images of Nazi death camps, in a campaign move that could backfire.
PoliticsJune 3, 2023
Young people wearing the Israeli flag over their shoulders while they walk through the former Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

March of the Living: Remembrance in Auschwitz

March of the Living: Remembrance in Auschwitz

The March of the Living is an annual event recalling victims and survivors of the Holocaust, held at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
HistoryApril 17, 2023
Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter's gift to Berlin now on show

Gerhard Richter's gift to Berlin now on show

Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie museum presents 100 works by Gerhard Richter, on long-term loan from his art foundation.
ArtsApril 1, 2023
A group of people walk in front of the main gates of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz Birkenau

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2023 on the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
PoliticsJanuary 27, 2023
Holocaust survivor Arie Pinsker points to shoes at the Auschwitz memorial

Auschwitz: Saving the soles of lives lost

Auschwitz: Saving the soles of lives lost

New efforts have been launched to preserve the shoes of thousands of the youngest Holocaust victims.
SocietyOctober 2, 2022
A guard tower at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Auschwitz's harrowing history

Auschwitz's harrowing history

On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army liberated the prisoners in Auschwitz. What they found was unfathomable.
HistoryJanuary 27, 2022
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In the spotlight

Lily Ebert talks to a young boy

'Babies are the best revenge against the Nazis'

Ninety-eight-year-old Lily Ebert never thought she would escape Auschwitz, marry and have 35 great-grandchildren.
CultureJanuary 18, 2022
Adolf Hitler waves to crowd

Austria faces up to Nazi past

Austria has departed from its long-held victim myth in a new exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial.
CultureOctober 12, 2021
An archive photo of Marta Fuchs, the head seamstress at the "Obere Nähstube"

The dressmakers of Auschwitz

Reading about a 'tailoring studio' in Auschwitz, Lucy Adlington discovered death camp inmates employed as dressmakers.
CultureSeptember 14, 2021
The German-Sinti Bamberger family sitting for a photo, Margarethe sits in the front row on the left

Europe remembers Sinti, Roma murdered in WWII

On August 2, 1944, 4,300 Sinti and Roma were killed in the gas chambers of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
HistoryAugust 2, 2021