Dushman mowed down the camp’s fence with his tank, helping liberate the inmates inside, according to Agence France-Presse. “We hardly knew anything about Auschwitz,” he said in a 2015 ...

Every year, as many as two million visitors tour Auschwitz. They see the “ Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Sets You Free”) gate, the barbed-wire fencing, the wooden barracks, the gas chamber.

The ceramic high voltage insulator was used as part of an electric fence that imprisoned people in the death-camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. It represents the barbarity of mankind when religion is ...

After 2 days and 1 night. Through the wagon I could see SS Men with dogs, barbed wire, electric fences. We’d arrived in Birkenau, Auschwitz. And they said “Men on one side, Women and children ...