The story of Schindler's heroism became a novel and a film. But in 1982, author Thomas Keneally told the BBC that this was ...

Visiting the Jewish Community Centre in Krakow, which he opened 17 ... thousands of prisoners were executed at Auschwitz 1, the concentration camp 3km (1.85 miles) away from Birkenau.

A 42-mile trip west of Kraków, the brutal, crushing concentration and extermination camps of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau are located in the city of Oswiecim. More than 1.1 million ...

It is they who deserve to be heard on such a day — those few who survived the former Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and concentration camp ... of Oswiecim and in Krakow.

From influential platforms, Mr. Turski, an Auschwitz survivor from Poland, warned the world of rising antisemitism and the ...

Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi concentration camp and was at the centre of the ... On Monday, he gave a speech at the Jewish Community Centre in Krakow where he met Holocaust survivors.

As the grandchild of an Auschwitz survivor and the current ... to a ceremony marking the 80 th anniversary of the concentration camp's liberation to be made up primarily of survivors and Jewish ...

King Charles was pictured wiping away a tear during an incredible moving ceremony at Auschwitz to mark the 80th anniversary of the concentration camp's liberation. The King's appearance at the ...

OSWIECIM, Poland — The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops ... this extermination industry and this concentration camp, are today the guardians of memory,” Duda ...

Notable excursions out of town include the "Wieliczka" Salt Mine and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. The "Wieliczka" Salt Mine lies southeast of Kraków, while the concentration camps ...