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Prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp after their liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz—a Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp in occupied Poland where more than a million people were murdered as part of the Nazis' "Final Solution" to the Jewish question—was liberated by the Soviet Red Army during the Vistula–Oder Offensive.
A Holocaust memorial day or Holocaust remembrance day is an annual observance to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide of six million Jews and of millions of other Holocaust victims by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. Many countries, primarily in Europe, have designated national dates of commemoration.
The Auschwitz Album is a photographic record of the Holocaust during the Second World War. It and the Sonderkommando photographs are among the small number of visual documents that show the operations of Auschwitz II-Birkenau , the German extermination camp in occupied Poland .
A group of survivors of Nazi death camps marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II in a modest ceremony Saturday in southern Poland. About 20 ...
Former prisoners laid wreaths at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27.The date marks the anniversary of the liberation of ...
In 2005, the United Nations established a different date for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, [2] January 27—the day in 1945 when the Soviet Red Army liberated the Auschwitz–Birkenau concentration camp—but the Yom HaShoah date of Nisan 27 on the Hebrew calendar continues as the date for the determination of the 8-day DRVH ...
Yet, today we are astonished by accusations of genocide against the Jewish state while we fight for our existence,” he said. The theme of the observances was the suffering of the individual human being, symbolized in simple, hand-drawn portraits of the camp's inmates that were beamed on a screen during the observances in Birkenau.
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