01-27-2015, 11:39 PM
On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops moved through the town of Oswiecim, Poland, and liberated the concentration camp complex of Auschwitz. In the weeks before, the majority of the prisoners being held there had been marched west towards Germany, leaving behind a few thousand people in severely poor health. These prisoners who remained in Auschwitz were a small fraction of those who were brought to the camp complex, where more than 1.1 million people are estimated to have been killed by the Nazis.