FLOSSENBÜRG, Germany — Shelomo Selinger spent a little more than a month at the Nazi concentration camp here during World War II before he was transferred north to one of its many subcamps. But the 96 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OŚWIĘCIM, Poland — The Soviet Red Army troops who arrived here on Jan. 27, 1945, helped uncover one of the greatest atrocities ...

With the coronavirus pandemic wiping clean much of the calendar of public events in Germany, the memorial at the Buchenwald former concentration camp marked the 75th anniversary of its liberation on ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Sunday that society must “never close its eyes” to anti-Semitism as she joined Holocaust survivors to mark 70 years since the liberation of the former Nazi ...

The Auschwitz concentration camp operated by Nazi Germany is marking the 80th year since it was liberated by the Soviet Red Army in 1945 on March 27, 2025. The camp is near Oswiecim, Poland. Some 1.1 ...

On April 29, 1945, when U.S. Army officer Felix Sparks and his men approached Dachau concentration camp, a sweet odor reminiscent of the Chicago stockyards nauseated them. After encountering the ...

MINSK, 11 April (BelTA) - By resolution of the United Nations, 11 April is observed as the International Day of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camp Prisoners. It was established to commemorate ...

Moran, and Mark Olsky are survivors born to survivors. During the Holocaust, their mothers were young Jewish women sent to ...

At 22, Army medic LeRoy "Pete" Petersohn helped liberate the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen and documented its horrors in a letter home, testimony his son says Petersohn felt compelled to record ...

The United Nations designates every Jan. 27, the day of liberation at Auschwitz, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day to memorialize the six million Jews and millions of other victims of Nazi ...

Born into the hell of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp just weeks before its liberation, Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem, now 81, is among the youngest survivors of the Holocaust. Her very existence is a ...

TROY, New York – The commander of the New York Army National Guard’s Troy-based 42nd Infantry Division will be on hand April 29 for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis’ infamous Dachau ...