auschwitz

Maximilian Kolbe gave his life for that of a stranger... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8MbKF8YfiU

Kazimierz Piechowski is one of just 144 prisoners to have broken out of the notorious Nazi camp and survive. Today aged 97, he tells his extraordinary story. n 20 June 1942, the SS guard stationed at the exit to Auschwitz was frightened. In front of him was the car of Rudolph Höss, the...

Not many Americans know the USAAF flew over Auschwitz in WWII. The camp was not bombed, but the IG Farben factory nearby. On the 9/13/44 mission 2 B-24s were shot down, and we will take you to both crash sites and related memorials... Shot Down over Auschwitz - The "Hell's Angels" Aircrew Are...

Survivors return to Auschwitz, 70 years on, as leaders sound alarm - Yahoo News Oswiecim (Poland) (AFP) - Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, ageing survivors and dignitaries gather at the site synonymous with the Holocaust on Tuesday to honour victims and sound the alarm over a...

Warsaw, 1940. A man is rounded up in the street by the occupying German forces. He is beaten and imprisoned, then sent to Auschwitz – a place now synonymous with death and terror. For most, this was something to be avoided at all costs. But for this particular man, this was all in a day's work...