Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today. Sometimes the only sounds are the soft footsteps of visitors, people who come from all over the world to mourn and to learn, and the voices of their guides speaking in hushed tones into microphones trying to explain the ungraspable.

Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz concentration camp and liberated the prisoners from the Nazi regime’s horrific crimes. This day is now observed as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Also,

Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting choice of residence, given the most famous feature of the town is its proximity to the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz – where at least 1.

More than 1.1 million people died in the Nazi concentration camp in Poland. It has been 80 years since it was liberated by Soviet forces on 27 January 1945.

An Auschwitz survivor who was just 13 when she arrived at the concentration camp says the recent rise in antisemitism is driven by ignorance.

Commemorations are being held Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops.

An exclusive interview with Auschwitz survivor and award-winning photographer Ryszard Horowitz, on his extraordinary life and his perilous childhood as a Jewish boy in Nazi-occupied Kraków.

I never got to meet my grandfather Ludvig, who survived the Holocaust, or his mother Rachel. They were put onto a cattle cart to the Auschwitz death camp in 1944. Ludvig, who was about 15 at the time, was separated from his mother and sent to another concentration camp. But Rachel was tortured, gassed and murdered.

M onday, Jan. 27, marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Ten days prior to the opening of the gates, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews, was detained. He disappeared and his fate remains unknown.

A dwindling number of Holocaust survivors are able to share first-person accounts of the horrors they endured, as the world marks the 80th anniversary of

Jan. 27, marks International Holocaust Day. NBC News' Jay Gray reports from Auschwitz, where the 80th anniversary of its liberation will bring forth memories and messages that resonate today.

The King will make history as he becomes the first British monarch to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp on Monday.