Soldier used T-34 Soviet tank to mow down death camp's electric fence, helping to set prisoners free in 1945

Faced with shortage of lethal injection drugs, US state renovating its long-defunct gas chamber and buying chemicals to manufacture cyanide gas, better known as 'Zyklon B'

Lidia Maksymowicz says she and pontiff 'understood each other with a glance' as Francis silently embraced the 80-year-old Polish citizen

Travel company backtracks after initially saying reviewer, who claimed to have gone to death camp to 'test the chamber,' complied with its submission guidelines

One of 110 witnesses at seminal 1961 trial, Kleinman's testimony helped send notorious Nazi official to the gallows

Beata Szydlo of Poland's Law and Justice party nominated to state's museum board; her faction has been accused of manipulating the historical record on the Holocaust

After long days of killing, Nazi officers would head to the dining room near the camp to grab a bite or have a drink

Auschwitz commemoration held virtually for 2nd year due to pandemic; Rivlin: Even if we can't march, we must 'remember and recall the horrors of the Holocaust'

Massachusetts lawmakers renew calls for compulsory genocide studies after team used terms such as ‘Auschwitz,’ ‘rabbi’ and ‘dreidel’ to signal game tactics

Club, owned by Russian-Israeli Roman Abramovich, honors murdered German and Hungarian players and a British POW who survived death camp