Learn about Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night. After his internment at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and liberation from Buchenwald, Wiesel became a ...

World War II ended 80 years ago. But the attitudes and actions that created WWII’s Nazi concentration camps and led to the murder of 6 million Jews are not necessarily “long ago and far away.” That’s ...

Survivor Ryszard Horowitz is "very much for preserving the place for as many generations as possible," and Polish director Agnieszka Holland is "really curious what the new generation will bring to ...

A still from a documentary film shows a U.S. soldier reaching out to outstretched hands of prisoners of the liberated Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, in then West Germany, in April 1945, during ...

A commemorative screening of the monumental documentary came as some artists are questioning whether Germany’s Holocaust remembrance culture stifles free speech. By Beatrice Loayza Reporting from ...

Edith Eva Eger became a psychologist in her 50s, after immigrating to Baltimore, working in a clothing factory, raising her children and returning to college.

An exploration of the evolution of Auschwitz and its three camps. A detailed look at archival maps, blueprints and photos of Auschwitz. A guide to Nazi concentration camps and ghettos. Archival maps, ...

Jan. 27 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1606, the surviving conspirators in the "Gunpowder Treason" plot to blow up the English Parliament and the king of England on Nov. 5, 1605, were convicted.