Horst Günter Marx. Actor: The Venus Trap. Born in Potsdam in 1955, Horst-Günter Marx starts acting in his school's mime troupe at 10, where he makes his first efforts in acting and directing. By then ...

More than 1.1 million Jews were killed in Auschwitz and the adjacent Birkenau death camp in gas chambers or from starvation, disease and forced labor in the meticulous Nazi effort to rid Europe of ...

In order to meet the needs of filmmakers, the Auschwitz Museum has made a digital replica, which was created "out of the growing interest of directors in the history of the German camp," explains ...

The Last Musician of Auschwitz tells the extraordinary story of cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, along with other victims of the camp - Jews, Poles and Roma - who played and created music amidst the ...

In the archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum lies a collection of music manuscripts—written, arranged, and performed by the prisoner orchestras. Damaged and incomplete, these manuscripts have long ...

Henryk Mandelbaum, one of the last survivors of a unit responsible for clearing corpses at the infamous Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in Poland has died at the age of 85. A Polish Jew, Mandelbaum spent ...

Photographer Judy Glickman Lauder recently published a book, called “Beyond the Shadows, The Holocaust and the Danish Exception,” featuring pictures from her first visits to the Auschwitz-Birkenau ...

World news is all reports on stories involving politicians, conflict and revolutions . World News helps the global environment set the political agenda through journalists situated in conflict ...

US Holocaust Memorial Museum educators and historians created these lesson plans for use in secondary classrooms. Click on a lesson plan to see its recommended grade level, subjects covered, and time ...