Reports of the fire at Majdanek that damaged the barracks housing hundreds of thousands of shoes should cause up to shudder. Something monumental has been lost and we must be mindful of its magnitude.

Berlin's Jewish Museum is one of the most visited in the German capital. Under the title "Vor Gericht: Auschwitz/Majdanek" (On Trial: Auschwitz/Majdanek) the museum shows paintings by artist Minka ...

The Majdanek death camp located in Lublin, Poland was the site of one of the largest mass executions recorded during the Holocaust. Over 18,000 Jews were killed on one day, Nov. 3, 1943. Today, the ...

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The Majdanek State Museum, the site of a German death camp where the Nazis murdered thousands, is used to saying no to filmmakers who want to shoot there — but they made an exception for Jesse ...

BERLIN — A former guard at the Majdanek death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder for allegedly serving there during a period when at least ...

The summer after I graduated college in 1992, I spent several weeks wandering around Europe east of the Elbe, from Budapest, to Prague (I guess Prague is actually south of the Elbe, but whatever), and ...

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent arriving hero today established that two-thirds of the more than 1,500,000 men, women and children annihilated by the Germans in the "death chambers" of the ...

A prisoner’s cap from the Majdanek concentration camp — likely stolen decades ago from the museum there — was found in the United States. The gray-and-blue-striped cap was scheduled to be transferred ...

On October 14, 1943 in the extermination camp at Sobibór took place a revolt of the Jewish prisoners. On that day, a group of prisoners under the command of Leon Feldhandler and Soviet POW Alexander ...