![View of Auschwitz-Birkenau under a blanket of snow immediately after the liberation. [LCID: 58406]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/70e4a693-9692-4141-8414-a8f11c0c9e15.jpeg)
Photograph of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp under a blanket of snow immediately after Soviet forces liberated the camp on January 27, 1945. This photograph was taken by Henryk Makarewicz, a Polish photographer and cinematographer. Makarewicz was a member of a documentary film crew attached to the First Polish Army (a Polish military unit affiliated with the Soviet army, commonly called Berling’s Army).
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