Munich might be famous for its beer halls and annual Oktoberfest, but it’s also a great spot for a family vacation with older ...

Liesbeth Heenk has published 115 Holocaust memoirs and nonfiction narratives in English, and she continues to search for stories that recount the experiences people lived through during that low point ...

About two years ago I was talking with Mike, a friend of mine I've known since Ronald Reagan was still in the White House, and he asked me a question out of left field: What if we went on a tour of ...

A wartime scrapbook my grandfather kept contains harrowing photographs from the Dachau concentration camp. I think I finally understand why he took them.

Opened in March 1933, Dachau was the first Nazi concentration camp, situated just a few kilometers from Munich. Throughout the duration of the Third Reich until its liberation in 1945 by American ...

DACHAU, Germany — Eighty years to the day after the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp, a memorial plaque was unveiled in honor of the 45th “Thunderbird” Infantry Division of the U.S ...

The Dachau memorial is hosting commemorative events and dedicating a plaque in honor of the U.S. Army's 45th Infantry Division that first encountered prisoners alive at the camp 80 years ago.

Eighty years ago Tuesday, the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp began. When American troops arrived at Dachau, they found nearly 70,000 prisoners.

Elly Gotz is a 97-year-old survivor of Germany's Dachau. In 1941, Gotz was 13. He remembers the German Army arriving and immediately attacking Jews.

On April 29, 1945, when U.S. Army officer Felix Sparks and his men approached Dachau concentration camp, a sweet odor reminiscent of the Chicago stockyards nauseated them. After encountering the ...

A violin made in 1941 inside the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau was found to contain a hidden note from its maker, Polish Jewish prisoner Franciszek Kempa.

The liberation of Dachau was not a moment of celebration, says Dan Stone The historian on commemorating the shock and horror of concentration camps, 80 years on ...