It will be the Soviets or the Red Army who will enter Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp of the Shoah, on January 27, 1945. What they would discover is what the Nazis would leave behind, thousands of prisoners simply abandoned and not forced on death marches to Germany. These prisoners were left to starve, but in the fierce fighting around the camp a number of Soviet soldiers died. More than 200 people were killed in the fighting to liberate the camp, and once inside, the true horrors of the Holocaust would be told.
The Red Army quickly attempted to treat these prisoners, but they also found themselves confronted with a large number of corpses left inside the camp. Disease and starvation were rife in the camp, and at first accounts would be told of the experiments, experiments, and brutal punishments and beatings administered by the guards. Auschwitz would be the largest camp in the Holocaust, but during World War II it would be one of many camps liberated.
So join us as we examine “The Liberation of Auschwitz, Bringing Freedom to the Death Camp.”
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