We commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, designated by the United Nations to mark the anniversary of the January 27, 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp.

January 27, known as Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp. BBC Arts tapped Two Rivers Media to commemorate the event with the feature documentary The Last Musician of Auschwitz.

I did not need to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps to know they were unspeakably evil. However, my somber visit embedded in my soul my deep conviction to speak up at injustices and cruelty being perpetuated. All humans have dignity, all humans have basic human rights endowed by their Creator and all deserve to have those rights respected.

My father had entered Auschwitz the previous spring, together with his parents, his two brothers, and two of his three sisters. They, too, were gone by the time the camp was liberated. Unlike my father,

A Jewish Utah woman, whose parents survived one of the worst concentration camps of World War II, shared what it was like for them.

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 million were killed at Auschwitz,

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 whom 56 traveled back to the site of horror to attend the memorial ceremony.

It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return to Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

BOSTON – Monday is Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp. In Massachusetts, two Holocaust survivors said their experience has never left them.

A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps as a young boy will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since the liberation of one of the Nazi's most

Other victims included the Roma, Polish political prisoners, homosexuals, communists, Soviet prisoners of war and disabled people. We look back at what happened at Auschwitz, the way different categories of victims were treated,

Events marking the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in then-occupied Poland are taking place across the world. Some 1.1 million people were murdered there, 1 million of them Jews.