international holocaust remembrance day images

The photos below belong to several museums in the former Yugoslavia and were digitized by the online archive .Įlectric barbed wire fence and concrete pillars of Auschwitz concentration camp have been preserved as part of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Most of the prisoners were brought to Auschwitz in special railway transport, in cattle wagons with a bit of hay on the floor. On this death camp alone, 960,000 Jews, 74,000 non-Jewish Poles, 21,000 Roma, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and up to 15,000 other Europeans were murdered. Of the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz since its opening in May 1940, 1.1 million were murdered with poisonous gas, starvation, exhaustion, disease, individual executions or beatings, and as a consequence of medical experiments. On this date in 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp, was liberated by the Red Army.Īuschwitz was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied southern Poland, near the town of Oświęcim. The United Nations has declared January 27 the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the genocide over 6 million Jews and 11 million others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators during the Second World War.

An edited version is published below as part of a content-sharing agreement. This story originally appeared on Meta.mk News Agency, a project of Metamorphosis Foundation. Members of Yugoslav family Mandić (Oleg, aged 11 at the time, his mother Nevenka and grandmother Olga) with Soviet soldiers in Auschwitz after the camp's liberation on January 27, 1945.

International holocaust remembrance day images