With thousands of personal items, dozens of buildings and hundreds of metres of fencing to protect against the ravages of time, the Auschwitz’s museums conservationist have a battle on their hands.
Set up in December 1940, the orchestra at Auschwitz was one of whole range of tools that the SS used to torment prisoners.
British Holocaust researcher and founder of the Auschwitz Study Group Michael Challoner has created a harrowing series of before-and-after photographs that serve as a poignant reminder of how the perpetrators of the Holocaust spent their free time.
After overhearing SS officers talking about carrying out a mass killing, a Polish labourer smuggled Herman and his friend out of Auschwitz
A new film will show that Germans living nearby knew exactly what was going on but considered it part of everyday life and “didn't even feel anything was wrong.”
Witold Pilecki’s Report from Auschwitz, the first source document about this German concentration camp, written in 1943, is available online in new English translation.
An Israeli soldier who took a poster saying ‘You also had a part’ to Auschwitz will be prosecuted, the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has announced.
The Auschwitz Jewish Centre has launched an international crowd-funding campaign to create a memorial park where the Great Synagogue stood before it was destroyed by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Some 12,000 Jewish and Polish youth took part in this year's March of the Living on the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp to honour Holocaust victims. The march ended with a ceremony in the Auschwitz camp's Birkenau section.
In 2017, 2.1 million people visited the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz, in southern Poland, the Auschwitz Museum reported on its website on Wednesday. This is 50,000 more than in 2016, when the number of visitors for the first time exceeded 2 milion.
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