Who would willingly go to a Concentration Camp? One soldier actually volunteered. In 1940, there were already rumors of what ...

Officials have commemorated the 85th anniversary of the first deportation of Polish prisoners to the Nazi German Auschwitz ...

The July 4th holiday is a celebration of freedom, including our American freedom of religious faith. But that proud tradition ...

Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German death camp, during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the camp's liberation in Oswiecim, Poland, on Monday.

More than 12,000 Jews and non-Jews from nearly 50 countries will travel to Auschwitz to commemorate the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. Sly Stone dies at 82.

Poland has imposed limits on speech about the Holocaust. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Georgetown University's Anna Sommer Schneider, who gives tours of Auschwitz.

KRAKOW, Poland — In 1939, Poland was home to more Jews than any other nation in Europe. Partitioned by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that year, Poland lost a fifth of its population in World ...

David Wisnia was a 15-year-old Jewish orphan from Poland who arrived at Auschwitz after his parents, grandfather, and young brother were shot dead by Warsaw’s Nazi occupiers.

Poland has ensured that Israel's leader could attend events marking 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz despite an ICC arrest warrant, thought he's not expected.

During World War II, Witold Pilecki risked his life to smuggle information about Auschwitz to the Allies. But they ignored his pleas to bomb the concentration camp, which was liberated 75 years ago.