Canister labels, Zyklon B In the fall of 1941, the basement of cell block 11—the Auschwitz building where ... camp and those most fit—approximately 10-30 percent of the arrivals—would ...

Striving to create a pure, Nordic populace, Hitler and his cohorts seized upon science, espousing "the idea that you could breed better human beings," says Susan Bachrach, the curator of the new ...

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At the gates of Auschwitz, prisoners were marched to work at 5.30 a.m., and home again in the evening, often carrying the corpses of ...

When my Polish great-grandfather was arrested for defying the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz, he took two things with him: his ...

Block 17, once the Yugoslav Pavilion at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, honours Holocaust victims from former Yugoslavia. Established in the 1960s, it was closed in 2009 due to political divisions ...

Buchenwald, one of the largest Nazi concentration camps on German soil, was liberated 80 years ago on April 11, 1945. What ...

The remains of four victims of a Nazi concentration camp for children that was dubbed 'Little Auschwitz' have been ... Bayer also organised a special penal block for children who wet their beds.

Vietnam has launched its first bidding round in many years for offshore exploration acreage in the Southeast Asian nation's two premier oil and gas provinces — the Cuu Long and Nam Con Son basins.

If it wasn't for the Arolsen Archives, half-sisters Sula Miller and Helen Schaller would never have met. Four years after ...

Craving a beach? Not too far from Gdańsk, Sopot is the country’s top beach resort, bragging not only Europe’s longest pier, but also a 4km-long beach and protected sand dunes. In other words, this ...

The slogan was 'inappropriate and unsettling' for the Jewish community in the UK, according to a leading European rabbi.