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Sinti and Roma have lived in Europe for 600 years. Under the Nazis, they were forcibly sterilized and murdered.

4,000 Sinti and Roma were murdered from August 2-3, 1944, in Auschwitz. Ten-year-old Mano Höllenreiner barely escaped.

The offending visitors said they had only wanted to take a 'souvenir' from the notorious death camp.

The Nazis "were keeping Jews from leaving the country," Sessions told Fox News.

Rappers Kollegah and Farid Bang will visit Auschwitz after outrage over anti-Semitic lyrics. What should they expect?

Pianist and composer Amit Weiner talked to DW about his project that revives the works of murdered Jewish composers.

Over 700,000 visitors flock to the museum and memorial site each year. But its director is nevertheless concerned.

A new exhibition at Bergen-Belsen records how children lived in the concentration camp — and in some cases survived.

An exhibition at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp memorial site documents children's detention there.

Poland has asked for Interpol's help in finding 1,600 former Nazis accused of war crimes in German concentration camps.

Arkady Waispapir, who survived the notorious Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, has died in Ukraine, aged 96.

Do mandatory visits to concentration camps help curb the problem of anti-Semitism in Germany?

Lawmakers passed measures designed to tackle anti-Semitism in Germany and create an anti-Semitism commissioner.

The 96-year-old "bookkeeper of Auschwitz" has been convicted of being an accessory to murder in 300,000 cases.

Professor Reinhard Bernbeck tells DW what can be learned from archaeological digs at the Columbia concentration camp.

The far-right populist party may soon send a member to the board that oversees former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.

An octogenarian has been handed several jail terms, but has so far avoided prison as her appeal is repeatedly postponed.

The Czech government has said the farm will be replaced with a memorial to Roma killed at the former concentration camp.

Modern technology has helped decipher a text written and buried in the soil by a Greek Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.

Just 47 percent of 14 to 16-year-olds in Germany know that Auschwitz-Birkenau was a Nazi death camp.

A unique exhibition of items from the former Nazi death camp is set to tour Europe and North America.

The pontiff's choice of words was met with shock in Germany and outrage among some Jewish organizations.

The leader of the Catholic Church went off script to denounce the conditions refugees face after entering Europe.

The liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by US troops 72 years ago has been marked with a minute's silence.

The judge in one of the last Auschwitz trials is being investigated for perverting the course of justice.

Speakers emphasized the near to protect democratic values and European unity at the memorial event.

The gate will be displayed in a museum on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp. It had been stolen in 2014.

The US vice president paid tribute to victims of the Holocaust in a somber visit to the Dachau memorial site.

Perhaps as many as 200 SS personnel could still be alive and, perhaps, brought to justice, albeit some 70 years late.

The Auschwitz Memorial has made an appeal to Germans and Austrians to donate any Nazi-era documents they may have.

Zuzana Ruzickova endured three Nazi concentration camps. Now turning 90, she says her love of Bach helped her survive.

The gate was stolen two years agofrom the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, sparking outrage.

The man now faces eight months in jail for openly displaying his Auschwitz camp tattoo at a Brandenburg pool last year.

The Nazis began deporting Jews to death camps 75 years ago today.

Max Mannheimer, who spent two years in Nazi death camps - including Auschwitz - has passed away at a Munich hospital.

A new row has emerged in the Czech Republic’s fractious governing coalition over a concentration camp for Romanies during the wartime period. The country’s Finance Minister, Andrej Babis, was heard telling voters on the campaign trail that the Lety camp in South Bohemia was not a concentration camp but a work camp, angering many who point out that over 300 people died there. Rob Cameron reports.

Julian Berner reports on a new Polish defamation bill which aims to prosecute those caught defaming history.

On his five-day trip to Poland, Pope Francis visited the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

In an unusual cross-cultural encounter, refugees take in a classical concert in Bonn's Schumann House.

A verdict is expected for the former Auschwitz guard Reinhold Hanning, accused of being an accessory to mass murder.

A new application helps visitors to see and understand the conditions in former concentration camps.

Reinhold Hanning has apologized for serving as a camp guard at Auschwitz despite knowing that people were being killed.

The Oscar-winning film raises the never-ending question of whether fiction can truly do justice to the Holocaust.

A district court in Germany has decided a man who served as a concentration camp guard is fit to stand trial.

Artists held in Nazi concentration camps documented the horror in their works. 100 of them are now on display in Berlin.

"There were lots of tears in the interviews," says Sarah Helm of the last survivors of Ravensbrück.