Holocaust survivors in Auschwitz FREED! Looks at their bare feet in the snow☹️ January 27, 1945 – Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau 🕯️ On January 27, 1945, soldiers of the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration and extermination camp, located in occupied Poland. What they discovered exposed the full industrial scale of genocide carried out by Nazi Germany. At the time of liberation, approximately 7,000 prisoners remained alive—most gravely ill or near death. Just days earlier, the majority of prisoners had been forced on death marches westward as German forces attempted to conceal their crimes 🚶‍♂️❄️. Auschwitz was unique in its function. It operated as both a labor camp and an extermination center, where more than 1.1 million people were murdered—most of them Jews ✡️. Victims were killed in gas chambers using Zyklon B, shot, starved, or worked to death. Soviet soldiers found piles of human hair, thousands of shoes, suitcases, e...