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The liberation of Auschwitz
Auschwitz
- prisoners lived to be freed
- ≈ 7,000
- prisoners lived to be freed
- people were murdered in this camp
- ≈ 1.1 million
- people were murdered in this camp
On 27 January 1945 Red Army soldiers entered Auschwitz, the largest Nazi death camp. More than a million people had been murdered there, most of them Jews. Only a few thousand survivors remained, among them children. Today 27 January is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Shortly before the Red Army arrived, the Nazis drove most of the prisoners west on foot, through the snow, in “death marches”, and tried to destroy the evidence of their crimes. Those left in the camp were so exhausted that many could not stand.
Soldiers found storerooms full of the clothes, shoes and children's things of the murdered. Today the camp is a museum, so that the world remembers where hatred leads.
See it on the map