A Holocaust survivor from Prague, Dita Kraus endured Auschwitz before rebuilding her life in Israel — her “home without roots.” She passed away on October 18, 2025.

During the lesser-known 1943 Sobibor Uprising, several hundred Jews fled into the forests of Poland, where many were tracked ...

Discovering his grandfather Rudolph Höss was the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp turned Kai Höss into an ...

July 2001: joint Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee/World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring mission; December 2006: World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS site visit during the management ...

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Enter most any bookstore in America, and you’ll find them, their covers gleaming with motifs of barbed wire, electric fences, and menacing birds. Perhaps a person will be standing on a railroad tie, ...

Being a musician in the women’s orchestra of Auschwitz-Birkenau was a gruesome endeavor. It meant playing brisk marches, under SS command, as other concentration camp inmates headed out to ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — “Triumph of the Heart,” a new film about St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish priest who gave his life in Auschwitz, brings cinematic heft to Catholic storytelling while confronting ...

(NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) -- The Jan. 6 rioter seen in photos wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" hoodie inside the U.S. Capitol building has been arrested in Virginia on charges stemming from a dog attack. Robert ...

Robert Keith Packer, 60, was arrested on Thursday. The Jan. 6 rioter seen in photos wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" hoodie inside the U.S. Capitol building has been arrested in Virginia on charges stemming ...

Newport News Police made an arrest in connection with a dog biting incident that left four people hospitalized Monday evening. The owner of the two dogs, Robert Keith Packer, was arrested Thursday ...