View of a section of barbed-wire fence and barracks at the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945. This photo was taken by Stanisław Mucha, a Polish photographer, after the camp was liberated.
On January 27, 1945, Soviet forces liberated the Auschwitz main camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Auschwitz-Monowitz. They found approximately 7,000 prisoners who had been left behind when the SS abandoned the camps and evacuated the prisoners on death marches.
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