A project to trace hundreds of children who were displaced by the Holocaust has been launched by am American museum. The campaign, run by the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum is calling for information about more than 1100 children, depicted in a series of photographs which can be seen online. The photos were taken at refuge [...]

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, on this day in 1945 Russian soldiers finally liberated the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz. To mark this anniversary here are a few interesting facts about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. Auschwitz II – Birkenau, was built in October 1941. It held more than 100,000 prisoners and housed gas chambers capable [...]

65 years ago today, Russian troops liberated what was left of the Auschwitz death camp. Unfortunately less than 3,000 inmates were left, the rest had either been executed or put on a forced death march away from the camp. The camp itself was in tatters as the SS had tried to destroy as much evidence of [...]

Yesterday I visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, about 50km west of Krakow, Poland. It is a place I have always wante to visit, indeed it is a place, that personally, I have told myself I must visit, owing to the significant historical and humanitaria (or lack of it) story that the site has to tell. [...]