Auschwitz concentration camp

The Red Army entered Auschwitz liberating 7500 prisoners. The date was January 27th 1945 and in the following days 200 of the prisoners died, regardless of the medical assistance provided by the allied forces.

Two former SS men will go on trial this month for their alleged complicity in the murder of thousands of people at Auschwitz, as Germany accelerates its bid to prosecute ageing Third Reich criminals.

In a statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Aleksandar Vucic said Serbia will fight "always and consistently against fascism and fascist tendencies."

The country will do so in the hope that Treblinka, Auschwitz and Jasenovac will never be forgotten, the prime minister has been quoted by the government website.

January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the date the United Nations chose to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust during World War II.

The anniversary, which is marked each year since 2005, falls on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland by the Russian army in 1945.

The appointment of ANEL (Independent Greeks party) MP Dimitris Kammenos as Deputy Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks by PM Alexis Tsipras has caused an uproar in the Greek political scene, which spread to social media, as the right-wing populist politician is associated with circulating anti-Semitic comments and conspiracy theories.

A 94-year old German who worked as bookkeeper at the Auschwitz death camp was sentenced to 4 years in prison for being an accessory to the murder of 300 thousand people.

A 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served at the Auschwitz death camp was convicted July 15 on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder and given a four-year sentence.

A deputy of the right-wing anti-austerity junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) Dimitris Kammenos on Thursday posted a photo of the infamous Auschwitz sign, “Arbeit macht frei” replaced by “We Stay in Europe”. The post led to friction within the ANEL party between ANEL spokesperson Marina Chrysoveloni and and deputy Dimitris Kammenos who had a terse discussion.

Coalition partner Independent Greeks distanced itself on Wednesday from one of its own MPs, Dimitris Kammenos (no relation to party leader and Defense Minister Panos Kammenos), who posted on his Facebook page a doctored photograph of the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined survivors of the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau on May 3 for a solemn ceremony to mark 70 years since it was liberated by US forces.