The story behind the 'Memorial V + W' recounts Rudolf Vrba's dying wish for people to retrace his and Alfréd Wetzler's escape route from Auschwitz to Žilina, envisioning it as a living memorial to Holocaust events.
The Polish Embassy has intervened with Italian newspaper 'Il Messaggero' after it used the term 'Polish extermination camps' in an article describing a trip by Roman students to Auschwitz.
On March 15, 1943, the first train carrying Jews from the city of Thessaloniki departed for Auschwitz-Birkenau, marking the beginning of the community's mass deportations.
Od marca 2026 roku uczniowie starszych klas szkół podstawowych i ponadpodstawowych skorzystają z bezpłatnych pobytów studyjnych w Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau.
A new French animated short film tells the story of Alfred Nakache, a Jewish swimmer and athlete who survived Auschwitz, highlighting his resilience under Nazi persecution.
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, known as the 'cellist of Auschwitz,' recounts her powerful story of survival and how music played a crucial role in saving her life during the Holocaust.
Bird specimens collected by ornithologist Günther Niethammer during his tenure as an SS-Untersturmführer at the Auschwitz concentration camp are being publicly exhibited for the first time.
Josef Mengele, known as the 'Angel of Death' for his inhumane medical experiments at Auschwitz during World War II, reportedly died a free man, sparking renewed discussion about his legacy.
Rudolf Höss, one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals and commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, was arrested while disguised as a farmer.
Two swastikas have been found spray-painted on buildings in a Paris suburb that served as a World War II transit camp for some 63,000 Jews deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
A KRG representative stated that the legacy of Auschwitz underscores the existing gaps in documenting Kurdish genocides, emphasizing the need for better historical record-keeping.
A new 3-minute video titled "The Dream" portrays the experiences of Greek Jews from Thessaloniki who were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943. The video uses a dream sequence where a girl recounts her story from the death camps.
Brigita Bakovská, a Holocaust survivor who endured Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz-Birkenau, has passed away. She was one of the few who survived the extermination camp where over 3700 Jews from Czech lands were murdered in March 1944.
An article explores the mysterious work of Otti Berger, a talented designer from Baranja who studied and taught at Bauhaus, and was later killed in Auschwitz.