17/03/2026
January 27, 1945, marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Soviet Red Army, revealing one of the darkest chapters of human history. Auschwitz was a complex of three camps: Auschwitz I, the administrative center; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the main extermination camp; and Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a forced labor camp. Birkenau was designed for mass murder, equipped with gas chambers and crematoria, making it one of history’s most systematic killing centers.
Around 1.1 million people were murdered there, most of them Jewish, along with Poles, Roma, and Soviet prisoners of war. Victims were transported in overcrowded trains and subjected to selections—those unable to work were sent directly to gas chambers. In early 1945, as Allied forces approached, the N***s forced over 60,000 prisoners on brutal death marches in freezing conditions. Many died from exhaustion, hunger, exposure, or were shot if they fell behind.
When the Red Army entered, they found about 7,000 survivors, many gravely ill. They also discovered hundreds of thousands of shoes, children’s clothing, toys, and suitcases—silent evidence of the lives lost. The N***s had attempted to destroy evidence, but the remaining structures and documents exposed the truth of their crimes.
January 27 is now Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time to honor the victims, remember the horrors of genocide, and reaffirm the commitment to preventing such atrocities in the future"