80 Years After Liberation Of Auschwitz-Birkenau

For the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, our co-founder Dr Ewelina Ochab published a few reflections in Forbes. Read it all here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2025/01/25/80-years-after-liberation-of-auschwitz-birkenau/

January 27, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Over one million people were murdered there, most of them were Jews, but also Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and people of other nationalities.

Auschwitz was the biggest Nazi camp. The camp was founded in early 1940 in response to the growing number of arrests and the overcrowding of prisons and other institutions across Europe. The first prisoners were Poles. However, in 1942, Auschwitz was turned from a concentration camp into a death camp (extermination camp) for the purposes of “Endlösung der Judenfrage” (the final solution to the Jewish question). Over the years of its existence, the camp significantly expanded to become a complex consisting of three parts: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Auschwitz III-Monowitz. Ultimately, over a million people lost their lives in the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex before Soviet troops liberated the few survivors on January 27, 1945… (Full article here:https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2025/01/25/80-years-after-liberation-of-auschwitz-birkenau/)