The Liberation of Auschwitz: What the Soviets Discovered on January 27, 1945
Eighty years ago, on January 27, 1945, soldiers of the Russian Red Army entered the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and were the first to discover the horrors of the concentration camp where more than a million people, most of them Jews, were murdered. . They found only a few thousand survivors in the vast compound, where they tried to erase all traces of the SS’s crimes.