Crimes & persecution
Liberation of Auschwitz
27 January 1945 · Oświęcim (Auschwitz-Birkenau)
Soviet troops reached the Auschwitz complex and found about 7,000 prisoners left behind after the SS had forced most inmates on death marches westward. At Auschwitz, the largest German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, about 1.1 million people were murdered, around 1 million of them Jews. 27 January is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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- [1]Auschwitz concentration camp
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- [2]Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum · encyclopedia
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