A new monograph on the “Sonderkommando” of Auschwitz-Birkenau dispels myths about the Jewish inmates forced to operate the German death camp’s killing facilities while revealing details about the ...

AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, Poland — As Jews around the world prepare to commemorate the Hamas-perpetrated massacre of October 7, that somber day will also mark 80 years since the so-called Sonderkommando ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: While dying for the Fuhrer and dying for the Emperor may have sounded alike, the German concept differed from the Japanese in one crucial respect. Survival was simply ...

It has been 83 years since the first prisoners arrived at Auschwitz, Poland, on May 20, 1940, where some 1.1 million people were murdered. While the majority of those who arrived at the most deadly ...

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Drawing by Helmuth Ellgard made in 1944 for the magazine Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung showing a German fighter ramming an enemy bomber. Credit: Helmuth Ellgaard / Familienarchiv Ellgaard / Wikimedia ...

Shlomo Venezia, a Holocaust survivor who wrote about his experiences in an Auschwitz Sonderkommando unit and spent years bearing personal testimony to the Shoah, has died. Venezia, who was born in ...

Members of the Sonderkommando documented what they saw in photographs, as well as secret writings now known as the ‘Scrolls of Auschwitz’ (Getty) Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Japan and Germany didn’t choose this method out of efficiency or idealism. They did it because they had so botched their war efforts that they couldn’t think of ...