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The Holocaust

Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviets

Saturday Jan 27, 1945
Poland

On 17 January 1945, 58,000 Auschwitz inmates were sent on a death march westwards; when the camp was liberated by the Soviets on 27 January, they found just 7,000 inmates in the three main camps and 500 in subcamps.


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