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It’s been 78 years since Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp.
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First established in 1940, Auschwitz contained a concentration camp, a large gas chamber and a crematoria.
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Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly 1 million Jews.
It was the greatest tragedy of the Holocaust. In just five years he murdered over a million people in Auschwitz, the largest and worst Nazi concentration camp.
Auschwitz Founded in 1940, it was located on the outskirts of Oswiecim, a Polish city annexed by Germany. Between 1940 and 1945 it came to include three main camp centers and numerous subcamps. Each was used for forced labor, torture, and genocide.
An estimated 1.3 million people were deported and about 1.1 million died during the five years of operation at Auschwitz.
The terror at Auschwitz finally subsided on January 27, 1945, when Soviet forces liberated the remaining prisoners. 7,000 prisoners from camp.
To mark the 78th anniversary of this liberation, these photographs show the horror and history of Auschwitz.
Auschwitz was founded in 1940 on the outskirts of Oswiecim, Poland. During his first year, officials cleared 15 square miles of him for camp.
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Auschwitz I, the first camp to be built, was originally created for three reasons: to imprison the enemy, to use forced labor, and to kill certain groups.
sauce: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and State Museum
Construction of the largest camp, Auschwitz II, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, began in October 1941. Electrified barbed wire divided the camp into ten sections.
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The various subdivisions of Auschwitz-Birkenau are divided into “women’s, men’s, families’ camps for Roma (Gypsies) expelled from the German, Austrian, Bohemian and Moravian protectorates, Jewish families exiled from the Theresienstadt ghetto It was for a camp. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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The prisoners were placed in poorly constructed wooden barracks with 36 bunks each. From 5 he was packed with 6 prisoners and in each unit he had over 500 prisoners.
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Inmates selected for forced labor had tattoos and serial numbers sewn onto their uniforms. Auschwitz was the only concentration camp to do this.
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Shortly after its construction, Auschwitz-Birkenau became Europe’s largest extermination camp and the center of the Jewish extermination.
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In 1942, two farmhouses just outside the camp were converted into gas chambers.
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However, these gas chambers were too small as Auschwitz-Birkenau became the center of mass murder. From March 1943 to June he built four new rooms, each with a dressing area, a gas chamber and an incinerator.
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As millions of people were murdered, piles of glasses, razors, shoes and other belongings were left behind.
In 1942 Auschwitz III, also known as Buna or Monowitz, was opened near the town of Monowice to house more forced laborers.
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Between 1942 and 1944, 44 sub-camps with different specialties were established at Auschwitz. The Nazis forced prisoners of war to work on large farms, coal mines, weapons production, and basically anything the German army needed for war.
sauce: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
An estimated 1.3 million people were sent to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945. About 1.1 million people died.
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When the Soviet soldiers arrived, there were only 6,000 to 7,000 prisoners left. The majority of them faced hunger, disease and death.
sauce: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
According to available records, at least 700 young prisoners were still in the camp when the soldiers arrived, half of them Jewish.
sauce: Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum
In many cases, the released children were malnourished, severely frail, vitamin deficient, and sick. Of her 180 children tested after release, 40% had tuberculosis.
sauce: Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum
Immediately after liberation, many of the children were sent to hospitals organized by the Soviet Army and the Polish Red Cross.
In 2016, a group of children who survived the horrors of Auschwitz gathered together for a photo.
A total of 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. His one-sixth of these exterminations occurred at Auschwitz alone.
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In memory of this momentous tragedy, world leaders will gather in Israel in 2020 to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp.
On January 27, 2023, Holocaust survivors gathered in Oswiecim, Poland, for a ceremony marking the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Holocaust survivors and former Auschwitz inmates lay wreaths in front of the Wall of Death in memory of the thousands who died in former Nazi concentration camps, as world leaders join world leaders in a candle ceremony. bottom.
Editor’s Note: This list was first published in January 2020 and has been updated to reflect recent developments.
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