
Photo. Auschwitz - the factory of death. The Russian liberation of Auschwitz in 1945 stopped the well organised mass killing. © Travel Explorations.
Auschwitz is the sadest memory in human history. On Thursday 27 January in 2011, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, under the patronage of the Polish President Bronisław Komorowski, will hold the 66th ceremonies of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz Concentration Camp by the Red Army.
Shot by Russian filmmaker Captain Alexander Vrotsos, the film provides a horrific record of the brutality that was wreaked upon the Jews there. It also documents the desperation and sadness of the over 6000 prisoners who survived, the courage of the liberators of the camp, and the terrible evidence of torture and death that awaited them there when they arrived in 1945.
The Liberation of Auschwitz - Part One:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mav3vrVztk
Child survivors of Auschwitz January 1945
Reconstruction staged by Russian military one or two days after liberation. Most of the children were twins who were experimented on by Dr. Joseph Mengele. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBJ8S43w8CA&feature=related
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum website: http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=85