The Soviet Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on January 27, 1945.. Photos: Liberation, II Click on a thumbnail image to view the full photograph.
What makes these photos so special is that they reveal the moments of liberation. Still, it is important to be clear that most existing photos of the Holocaust, and Jewish prisoners and trains, are the horrifying images of victims being transported or offloaded at death camps to be murdered.. Birkenau after liberation Guards from the then State Museum in Oświęcim standing at the ruins of crematory and gas chamber II (1948).