Timothy Koons-McGee, who grew up in Red Lion, was close with his grandfather, Stewart Knisley, who helped liberate Buchenwald ...

A staged recreation of Mauthausen's liberation, May 6, 1945. Spanish prisoners documented the camp's actual liberation the day prior using Nazi cameras. National Archives and Records, Cpl. Donald R.

WEIMAR, Germany >> Buchenwald survivor Henry Oster recalls thinking that a fellow inmate had “lost his sense of reality” when he said 70 years ago Saturday that the concentration camp was being ...

Walking along the dimly lit corridors of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the liberators peered at black-and-white photographs and listened to tour guides detail events that many had witnessed as ...

Ending a three-decade quest, Debbie Long on Monday met the American “kid” soldier who freed her mother from a World War II Nazi concentration camp. She threw her arms around Eldon Ooton, now 90, and ...

BERLIN (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II concluded her three-day state visit to Germany on Friday with a somber visit to Bergen-Belsen, the first former Nazi concentration camp she has visited. The queen and ...

That was the phrase used by survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp as they were being liberated in 1945. That saying is the key lesson of the holocaust. Holocaust survivors created this flag ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sara J. Brenneis, Amherst College (THE CONVERSATION) When American soldiers liberated ...