Gulag - Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps,” the system of Soviet labor camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that from the 1920s to the mid-1950s housed ...

Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly a million Jews. On the day of liberation 80 years ago, ...

At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal ...

When a reporter noted that Towers had remarkably uncallused hands for a man who had worked in Soviet labor camps. Towers said blandly: “I wore cotton gloves.” None of the thousands of ...

Soviet authorities suspended this project and ended the forced labor of prisoners. Although only 40 miles of tracks remained to be completed, the investment was no longer viable. Labor camps were ...

Bucharest, Jan 31 /Agerpres/ - An exhibition dedicated to the commemoration of 80 years since the deportation of ethnic German Romanians to USSR forced labor camps, which also showcases ... deportees ...

Natalia Romik is a public historian, architect and artist whose work focuses on Jewish memory and commemoration of the ...