Auschwitz

Grandson of Auschwitz commandant: 'My grandfather was greatest mass murderer in history'

It was only when Höss was in the 7th grade that he discovered who his grandfather was, which changed the way he saw himself.

Kai Höss at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. January 27, 2026.
A CROSS is seen in the German death camp Auschwitz II Birkenau.

A desecration: A church inside Birkenau is a violation of Holocaust memory - opinion

 Auschwitz concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

On This Day in 1945: Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp is liberated by Soviet Army

Eylon Levy holding Dan Auerbach's yellow star from Nazi-era Europe. Tel Aviv, January 26.

'It is impossible to believe, but it happened': Holocaust survivor recalls childhood in Nazi camps


‘We are united’: NYC Jewish, Muslim community members commemorate Auschwitz liberation

“The memory of the Holocaust reminds us that the seeds of hatred must be confronted wherever they appear,” CAM Chief Government Affairs Officer Lisa Katz said.

 Members of New York City’s Jewish and Muslim communities came together on Wednesday for an interfaith forum commemorating the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp’s 80th anniversary.

The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window

Weisz-Gut works at the local Jewish museum, which aims to draw attention to the town’s once-thriving pre-Holocaust Jewish community.

 PRISONERS OF the Auschwitz concentration camp after their liberation by the Red Army in January 1945.

Survivors cry ‘never again’ at Auschwitz’s 80th liberation anniversary

‘I thought that to be a Jewish child means you have to die,’ Tova Friedman tells world leaders

 Holocaust survivor Leon Weintraub

Auschwitz through Jewish eyes: Lessons and reflections on memory

Reporters Notebook | Auschwitz through the eyes of Jews eight decades later.

  A visitor wearing the Israeli flag facing the execution wall in the death camp.

WATCH: Hostage families attend memorial at Auschwitz

"It's very hard because ... what's happened in 7th October is feeling like another Holocaust or pogrom in the kibbutz Nir Oz."

 Auschwitz

PMO unveils new database for Eichmann Trial documents

Eichmann was in charge of organizing the “Final Solution” to exterminate Jews in the Holocaust, and was hanged in Israel on June 1, 1962, after being convicted of committing crimes against humanity.

 A thin faced Adolf Eichmann listens to the reading of a 15 count indictment, accusing him of the murder of millions of Jews during World War II, as a guard stands beside him. The reading of the charges at the trial's opening took an hour and 15 minutes.

EU hosts Auschwitz liberation event at Beit Juliana

In attendance were Holocaust survivors, the ambassadors of EU countries and the EU ambassador, Dimiter Tzantchev, as well as the Chairman of Yad Vashem, Dani Dayan.

  EU hosts holocaust event at Herzliya retirement home

Russian security bureau declassifies documents on Auschwitz liberation and Nazi crimes

The documents published by the FSB include testimonies, photos, a certificate commemorating a badge earned in the Polish army, as well as a certificate of release from Auschwitz.

The site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau

‘You’d have sided with Hitler’: Global Jewry decries 'hypocrisy' on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Jewish groups in Italy, Ireland and Israel accused international organizations of hypocrisy given their stance on the attacks suffered by Israeli civilians since October 7 2023.

 THE FRONT GATE of Auschwitz carries the infamous phrase: ‘Arbeit macht frei.’ The writer states: ‘Perhaps we as Jews are less alone in our grief than we may fear.’

The alarm bells of Auschwitz are sounding - opinion

As we reach this week’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, let’s not miss the alarm bells ringing loudly today.

THE DESTRUCTION at Kibbutz Be’eri