On the 80th anniversary of its liberation, survivors of the Holocaust gathered at the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Of the more than six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, 1.1 ...
The first British monarch to visit the camp appeared touched with emotion as he joined mourners to remember its 1.1 million victims ...
Museum works to preserve shoes belonging to Auschwitz's youngest victims On the 80th anniversary of its liberation, survivors of the Holocaust gathered at the extermination camp at Auschwitz ...
King Charles joined world and religious leaders to hear harrowing tales from survivors returning to mourn those who perished ...
Try to imagine this. You are hired to preserve piles of shoes left behind by murdered children. Not just dozens of children, not hundreds, not even thousands. These shoes remain from more than a ...
The shoes came from all over Nazi-occupied territory. But mainly, it's believed, from Auschwitz. "For me, these shoes are screaming. They are shouting: we were alive 80 years ago!" Polish musician ...
One especially emotional project involves the conservation of shoes of murdered children. Auschwitz is not only the place where 1.1 million people, 90% of them Jews, were massacred. It also looms ...
Charles and other world figures joined Auschwitz survivors for a poignant ceremony to remember ... The King saw exhibits of hundreds of everyday items taken from those murdered – adult shoes, children ...
Auschwitz survivors have warned of the rising antisemitism and hatred in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s ...
At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal belongings of people killed there. The “Arbeit macht frei” (work will set you free ...