The Latest Breaking News from Auschwitz

Robert Keith Packer, a 57-year-old Virginian, achieved a measure of infamy at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot when he was photographed wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with a skull and crossbones along with the words “Camp Auschwitz.” “Work Brings Freedom,” the front said, a translation of the notorious motto “Arbeit macht…

Arnold Schwarzenegger has quoted a line from The Terminator in the Auschwitz guestbook - which hasn't gone down well amongst social media users

Robert Packer’s sister asked the judge not to ‘judge a book by its cover’

A Virginia man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while wearing an antisemitic “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt over a Nazi-themed shirt has been sentenced to 75 days of imprisonment

The sisters were forced into work at the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp

Tova Friedman was selected for the gas chambers at Auschwitz along with other children, but miraculously survived after guards changed their mind at the last minute

The summer of 2022 marked the 80th anniversary of the first Nazi deportation of Jewish families from Germany to Auschwitz.

A Vatican cardinal has marked the 80th anniversary of the gas chamber killing of the Jewish-born Catholic convert Edith Stein

Zofia Posmysz, a Polish World War II-era resistance fighter who survived the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps and who later became a journalist and novelist, has died at 98