OSWIECIM, Poland -- Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp gathered Monday for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of its liberation, returning to the place where they lost entire ...
They reached the camp without knowing its name. This detail disrupts the clean arc we prefer--the idea that Auschwitz waited, labeled and understood, for history to arrive and recognize it. The Soviet ...
On this day in 1945, the Soviet Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp in occupied Poland, ending the Nazi's largest center of systematic slaughter. Roughly 7,000 prisoners, ...
Jan. 27 marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The date is observed with solemnity and ceremony, its language repeated so often that it ...