Auschwitz 75

Auschwitz 75 by ric gustafson


The Auschwitz death camp was liberated on Jan 27 1945. The Germans had already fled leaving thousands of sick and starving prisoners. Soviet troops found gas chambers and crematoria blown up to try and hide evidence of their mass killings.
The evidence was too much to hide. The camp has become the symbol of the Holocaust. Last year, 2.3 million visited the camp. 75 years after it's liberation, hundreds of survivors from across the world were planning to travel there. Auschwitz is an emblem of evil. Auschwitz is a site of historical remembrance. Auschwitz is a vast cemetery.
Prisoners arrived in cramped windowless cattle trains. At the infamous ramp, Germans selected those who became their forced laborers. Everyone else was gassed soon after arrival. More than 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz. Only about 7000 were found when the camp was liberated.


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