Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, now 99, the only surviving member of the Women’s Orchestra at Auschwitz - Toby Trackman It is only human ...

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 ...

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum announced the launch of a new digital replica of the concentration camp for filmmakers. Titled Picture from Auschwitz, ...

On the 80th anniversary of its liberation, survivors of the Holocaust gathered at the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Of the more than six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, 1.1 ...

Growing up in Israel as the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Judith Richter was taught not to discuss the Shoah. While her mother was very open about her experiences, Richter’s father was more ...

LONDON (RNS) — When the Roma violinist Jakub Segar arrived at Auschwitz, the concentration camp’s guards ordered him to strip and hand over all his belongings, including his violin. Unable to bear ...

"Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away" opens Oct. 18 at the Cincinnati Museum Center. The exhibit features 500 objects and 400 photos, many from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland. Stories ...