What Happened After the Liberation of Auschwitz - Of the few who survived the Nazi camp complex, a handful returned to ensure the site couldn’t be swept away into historical memory.
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A picture taken in January 1945 depicts the gate and railway of Auschwitz-Birkenau after the camp's liberation by Soviet troops
It was January 1945, and fires burned at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Not at the crematoria where, at the height of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp’s operations, an average of 6,000 Jews were gassed and cremated each day—those had been blown up at the command of SS officers preparing the camps’ evacuation. This time, the Nazis had set ablaze their prisoners’ looted possessions. The fires raged for days. Now, as Soviet troops marched westward through occupied Poland, the SS sought to dismantle their killing machine. The Red Army’s arrival meant liberation, the camps’ end.
But what came after the murders finally stopped?
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Despite the lack of modern preservation technology and questions about how best to present evidence of years of mass murder, the former prisoners who fought to preserve Auschwitz succeeded. The most notorious of the over 40,000 sites of systematic Nazi atrocities would be passed on to future generations. Other sites would fare differently, depending on the extent of their destruction by the Nazis and the deterioration of time.
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