For the 7,000 prisoners remaining—more than 60,000 had been forced to undertake a death march in the weeks before Allied troops arrived—liberation came as a bitter relief, overshadowed by the harrowing murder of 1.

The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being observed at the site of the former death camp.

Monday is Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. German Nazis murdered approximately 1.1 million people at the concentration camp from 1940 to 1945.

I feature my mother’s testimony in my teaching because it gives my students a direct link, through me, as my mother’s son, to the genocide that was the Holocaust, writes Menachem Z. Rosensaft.