International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is an international memorial day on 27 January commemorating the victims of the Holocaust. January 27, 2015 marks seventy years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest camp established by the Germans. A complex of camps, Auschwitz included a concentration camp, killing center, and forced-labor camps. It was located 37 miles west of Krakow, near the prewar German-Polish border. On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. It is estimated that at minimum 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945; of these, more than 1.1 million were murdered. So I was hiding out in the heap of dead bodies because in the last week when the crematoria didn’t function at all, the bodies were just building up higher and higher. So there I was at nighttime, in the daytime I was roaming around in the camp, and this is where I actually survived, January 27, I was one of the very first, Birkenau was one of the very first camps being liberated. This was my, my survival chance. —Bart Stern
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 08:10:43 +0000
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