Post-liberation photograph showing the main entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and killing center. Beginning in spring 1942, the Nazis murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. This photograph was taken some time after Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, but the exact date is unknown.
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