International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Soviet Troops Liberated Auschwitz 81 Years Ago Today
On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers who had survived years of fierce combat against German forces entered a sprawling complex of barracks and barbed wire in southern Poland known as Auschwitz. What they found there would define how the world remembers the Holocaust. Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 81st anniversary of that liberation. […]