The train to death This plan directed attention to another aspect. For many railroad platforms in Germany and Europe, Auschwitz was the final stop. The Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp had ...

By 1944 a three-track railroad spur and unloading ramp was operational at Auschwitz, ferrying as many Jews to their deaths as possible as mass murder was made functional and effortless.

Holocaust survivors have been marking 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, in Poland. Tova Friedman, 86, Leon Weintraub, 99, Marian Turski, 98, and Janina ...