LUBLIN, Poland (Reuters) - Some 27 letters written in urine by Polish women inmates to report on gruesome medical experiments performed on them by Nazi concentration camp doctors have been given to a ...

The babies that survived Ravensbruck were for the most part born just before its liberation by the Red Army during the night of April 29 to 30. The Nazis burned their records, but a register kept by a ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at HistoryToday.com. The question of how we should commemorate the concentration camps is a live one. On a ...

The trouble with a really bad idea is that no matter how awful it is to start with, it will probably be — well, improved upon is hardly right, but let’s say dialed up or intensified. So although the ...

Her voice quivering at times and crackling with anger at others, a San Francisco woman deported to her native Germany for serving as a concentration camp guard during World War II said Wednesday that ...

Born in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Father Mikolaj Sklodowski is seen in his apartment showing a photography with his mother in Gdansk, Poland on March 17, 2025. (Photo by MATEUSZ SLODKOWSKI / AFP ...

Roger Moorhouse is a historian of modern Germany and author of “The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941.” Ravensbrück By Sarah Helm Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. 743 pp. $37.50 When the ...

A circa 1941 photo of Germaine Tillion, French ethnologist and member of the French resistance. Credit - adoc-photos/Corbis--Getty Images A new book aims to preserve ...

A new book aims to preserve the stories of the prisoners at an all-female Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust, who resisted their captors as much as possible. Lynne Olson’s The Sisterhood of ...