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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 first in the camp complex to be liberated was Auschwitz III, the IG Farben camp at Monowitz; a soldier from the 100th Infantry Division of the Red Army entered the camp around 9 am on Saturday, 27 January 1945. [293] The 60th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front (also part of the Red Army) arrived in Auschwitz I and II around 3 pm.
January 27, 1945: Auschwitz concentration camp is liberated by the Soviet Red Army. January 30, 1945: More than 9,400 Germans on the German steamer are killed when the vessel is torpedoed and sunk by a Soviet submarine during civilian evacuation. The following events occurred in January 1945:
Altogether the Germans murdered 6 million Jews, or two-thirds of all of Europe's Jews, in the Holocaust at Auschwitz and other camps, in ghettoes and in mass executions close to people's homes. Liberated by the Red Army. On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops arrived at the gates of the Auschwitz and found some 7,000 weak and emaciated prisoners.
A group of child survivors at Auschwitz on the day of the camp’s liberation by the Red Army on Jan. 27, 1945. Hitler’s regime systematically murdered 6 million Jews during World War II ...
Watch as Holocaust survivors returned to Auschwitz in Poland on Monday, 27 January, marking 80 years since the concentration camp was liberated. Holocaust Memorial Day is held yearly on 27 January ...
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 .