A HOLOCAUST survivor has revealed she was minutes away from being sent to her death at Auschwitz – before her train was diverted in a lucky twist of fate. Agnes Kaposi, 92, was just 11 years

BUDAPEST, Jan 17 (Reuters) - When Agnes Darvas was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz in 1944 ... she was and then moved on to another concentration camp, Mauthausen. By the time they reached ...

The Jewish Community of Bermuda last night marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with song and stories of survival. Judy Maybury told the dozens of people in attendance for the

On the 80th anniversary of its liberation, survivors of the Holocaust gathered at the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Of the more than six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, 1.1 million were killed at Auschwitz,

I felt as if my entire family – generations and generations of my family – were standing with me, behind me, holding onto me.”

Holocaust survivor and educator Marianne Miller delivered a speech today at the United Nations General Assembly, marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day and commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

By Barbara Erling and Kuba Stezycki OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) -Auschwitz survivors were being joined by world leaders on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp by Soviet troops,

OSWIECIM: Some of the few remaining survivors of Auschwitz returned to the notorious Nazi death camp on Monday (Jan 27) as the world marked the 80th anniversary of its liberation. Auschwitz was the la

Agi Adler, an 88-year-old-Holocaust survivor from Budapest, was among those in attendance Sunday and lit a candle. At the end of the ceremony, guests signed a pledge committing to four action items: Honor the memory of those lost in the Holocaust; stand against intolerance; educate and reflect on the past; and promote tolerance and justice.

Women and children are seen after the British liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 15 April 1945Credit: Alamy An estimated 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) -Auschwitz survivors were being joined by world leaders on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp by Soviet troops, one of the last such gatherings of those who experienced its horrors.

When Agnes Darvas was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz in 1944, she escaped being sent straight to the gas chambers with other children largely because her coat had been stolen in the ghetto and her mother had cut off her braids for fear of lice.