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.

The main observances take place at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered over a million people

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.

British Holocaust survivor Mala Tribich, 94, admitted it was 'painful' to walk into the notorious camp - after having lost most of her relatives during the Holocaust

A wooden sign with the word STOP stands in front of what was an electric barbed wire fence inside the former Nazi German extermination and labor camp Auschwitz I, in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23.

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.

A new Holocaust Museum is being built in Greece, in honour of the 60,000 Jews from the port city of Thessaloniki who were sent to Nazi concentration camps. Families say 80 years on, the museum will give voice to those who suffered and died.

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

When Teresa Regula arrived at Auschwitz as a 16-year-old, the first real pain she experienced was of her ears burning. "They shaved us down to bare skin, and it was a scorching hot day, August 4... That was the first authentic pain I felt,

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.

Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today. It can feel that time has stood still at the place where Nazi German forces killed 1.1 million people, most of them Jews. There are the barracks which housed prisoners,