On January 27, 1945, about 7,000 Jewish prisoners were freed from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ... old father and grandfather living in New Jersey. To mark the 80th anniversary ...

See "Voices of Auschwitz," a one-hour documentary marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, at CNNgo ... America and started a new life and a new family ...

constantly changing in response to new 'needs' as the German war effort ebbed and flowed. As the map demonstrates, the Auschwitz complex served as a concentration camp and an industrial centre for ...

In a concentration camp in Germany this was the total space 3 inmates had to live in. Here at Auschwitz's new camp the original plan was to cram 9 prisoners into the same space. 550 in every barrack.

Höss even adopted the cynical motto of Dachau concentration camp in Germany—Arbeit Macht Frei—"Work makes you free"—and emblazoned it on the new gates of Auschwitz. The Polish prisoners now ...