In 2014, the clothing chain Zara apologized for selling a striped shirt with a yellow Star of David on the chest. In 2007, Zara also apologized for selling a handbag featuring embroidered ...

Used to rid clothing of vermin, this was not the gas chambers but a precursor in a prisoner barracks where dozens of dry, wooden, Holocaust-era three-tiered bunks looked ready to become kindling.

Surviving the savagery of Auschwitz required cunning and luck, but loyalty also played a role in keeping Jewish women alive. That is evident in these two nonfiction books set in Auschwitz.

On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in German-occupied Poland. Soldiers freed more than 7,000 people who had been held at the camp by Nazi Germany ...

OSWIECIM, Poland — It was 3 p.m. on Jan. 27, 1945, when the 322nd Rifle Division of the Soviet army entered Auschwitz, unaware of the inhumanity at the concentration camp where Nazis had killed ...

Of the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis during the Second World War, nearly 20 percent died at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the notorious death camp. ... Clothing buttons.

“It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return to Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Morning Edition remembers Martin Greenfield, who learned to sew while imprisoned in Auschwitz, and went on to make suits for celebrities, presidents and star athletes. He has died at the age of 95.