With the approach of the 70th
anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by
Soviet Red Army troops on January 27th, 1945, Reuters photographers got
together to take portraits of Auschwitz survivors who are still alive
today to tell the stories of their terrible ordeals and ensure that what
happened during the Holocaust never be forgotten.
Located in Nazi-occupied Poland, the
Auschwitz concentration camp is estimated to have killed 1.1 million
people, most of whom were Jews. Of the 200,000 inmates that were freed
in 1945, about 300 are alive today.
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