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

Ilse Koch was a German war criminal who allegedly used human remains to make household objects Caroline Blair is a writer for PEOPLE. She has been writing about celebrities, entertainment, reality TV ...

Weimar, Germany — On April 12, 1945, CBS News correspondent Edward R. Murrow walked through the gates of the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He was unprepared for the horrors that ...

The buildings stand in a place that seems to have been lifted up out of the surrounding landscape. The densely wooded Ettersberg, a hill located not far from the cultural hub of Weimar in the eastern ...

Some photographs are so much of their time that, as years pass, they acquire an air of genuine authority—about an event, a person, a place—and even, perhaps, an air of inevitability. This is what it ...

Rabbi Herschel Schacter, a U.S. Army chaplain who informed inmates of the Buchenwald concentration camp that they were finally free, died Thursday. He was 95 years old. And I'm Robert Siegel. The ...

“When you travel, you learn more about yourself than any place you visit,” observes a character in Tom Jacobson’s “Walking to Buchenwald,” now in its premiere by Open Fist Theatre Company in Atwater ...

In the soil of Israel, 100 survivors of Nazi concentration camps are planting a new home at Beer Ya'aqov. Across the hillside of Beer Ya’aqov, Fred Diament drove his tractor, cutting deep furrows in ...

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Seven trees near the former concentration camp in Germany were chopped down in what the International Committee of Buchenwald Dora said was a “horrible act of vandalism.” By Claire Fahy Seven trees ...