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On January 27, 2020, over 200 Auschwitz and Holocaust survivors met in front of the Death Gate at the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation. The anniversary of the date of the liberation is recognized by the United Nations and the European Union as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly a million Jews. On the day of liberation 80 years ago, only 7,000 were saved.
The choice of January 27 for the annual commemoration aligns with the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by the Red Army in 1945. The day commemorates the systematic extermination of 6 million Jews, representing two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population, alongside the deaths of millions of others perpetrated by the Nazi regime and ...
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau) [3] is a museum on the site of the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland. The site includes the main concentration camp at Auschwitz I and the remains of the concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau .
Soviet troops first liberated the Majdanek camp near Lublin in July 1944, and would go on to liberate Auschwitz, Stutthof and others. American and British forces, meanwhile, liberated camps to the west, including Buchenwald, Dachau, Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen. After liberation day, some prisoners died of disease.
King Charles III will pay his respects to victims of the Holocaust with an appearance at the Auschwitz-Birkenau site in Poland on January 27. This date, also referred to as Liberation Day, is ...
On the day of liberation 78 years ago, only 7,000 were saved. Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly a million Jews. On the day of liberation 78 years ago, only 7,000 ...
The Day of Remembrance was introduced on January 3, 1996, by a proclamation of Federal President Roman Herzog and set for January 27. On January 27, 1945, soldiers of the Red Army liberated the survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the largest extermination camp of the Nazi regime. In his proclamation, Herzog stated: