1940-1945
Oswiecim, Poland
Children in the Holocaust concentration camp liberated by Red Army
Child survivors of the Holocaust filmed few days after the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by the Red Army, January, 1945. Still photograph from footage shot by the Alexander Voroncov from the film unit of the First Ukrainian Front. Some of the tiny percentage of children not immediately
Photograph by Alexander Voroncov
Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz, also known as Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers, Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labour camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben, and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution to the Jewish question.
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