The Red Army Liberated The Auschwitz-Birkenau
On January 27, 1945, the Soviet Army arrived at Auschwitz and discovered a warehouse full of the victims’ belongings. Among the items discovered were pans, pots, eyeglasses, prosthetic limbs, and shoes. They assumed the camp had been abandoned at first. They soon discovered that it was teeming with sick and starving people who had been left behind by the Nazis when they fled. One of the first soldiers to arrive at the camp was Georgii Elisavetskii. He said, “They rushed toward us shouting, fell on their knees, kissed the flaps of our overcoats, and threw their arms around our legs.”
The Red Army Liberated The Auschwitz-Birkenau
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