WWII-CONCENTRATION CAMP-AUSCHWITZ

A photo taken 27 May 1944 in Oswiecim, showing Jews alighting from a train in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. The Auschwitz camp was established by the Nazis in 1940, in the suburbs of the city of Oswiecim which, like other parts of Poland, was occupied by the Germans during the Second World War. The name of the city of Oswiecim was changed to Auschwitz, which became the name of the camp as well. Over the following years, the camp was expanded and consisted of three main parts: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Auschwitz III-Monowitz. Red Army soldiers liberated the few thousand prisoners whom the Germans had left behind in the camp, 27 January 1945. AFP PHOTO/ YAD VASHEM ARCHIVES (Photo by Yad Vashem Archives / AFP) (Photo by -/Yad Vashem Archives/AFP via Getty Images)