In 1944, the Nazis placed them in a cattle car with no windows or food and took them to Auschwitz. "He remembers that there was an orchestra playing music as they arrived," Max said. When they got ...

Towards the end of the Second World War, the Nazis took many Auschwitz inmates on 'death marches' through the Polish winter. No food, no water; slowing down meant bullets. When the Soviet army ...

235,000 perished here at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Frequently, children were the first to be exterminated because the Nazis believed they were too weak to be forced to work and were a waste of food.

An Auschwitz survivor who was just 13 when she ... forced to walk long distances in the bitter cold, with little or no food, water or rest. Those who could not keep up were shot.

The Lost Music of Auschwitz follows the journey of the composer ... For Nazis gorging on food and downing beer. The juxtaposition of that image and the music is utterly horrific.” ...

Dark tourism refers to the visiting of "incidences of death, disaster and atrocity" made while still "within living memory," ...

Mr. Turski, a Polish journalist who survived Auschwitz as a teenager, urged the world not to be indifferent to the ...

German soldiers’ killed Melmed’s father during “target practice,” and her mother, increasingly ill and sacrificing her own food for her ... imprisoned Melmed in Auschwitz, shaved her ...

Another display tells the story of Father Jan Skarbek, a Catholic priest who risked his life to help Jews during the Holocaust by fabricating documents, smuggling food into Auschwitz, and ...

Auschwitz survivors lay candles during commemorations ... Nowadays, the centre also organises donations of food and essential items to refugees, including the 380,000 displaced Ukrainians in ...

Those left at Auschwitz-Birkenau had faced one final selection - too weak to walk, they stayed, 10 days without food as the SS Guards pulled out. The remnants of a murderous campaign of extermination.