On this day in History, learn about the horrible suffering caused by Nazi Germany while it was using Auschwitz as a concentration camp to fatally enslave the Jewish people.
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Nazi Germany was using Auschwitz as a concentration camp to exterminate Jews and use them as slave labor.
World War II in Europe officially ended with Germany’s surrender on May 8, 1945. Allied armed forces advanced across Europe in the war’s final stages, relentlessly pursuing the retreating Germany army.
The Soviet army advancing from the east liberated Nazi camps in Poland. The British and Canadians advancing from the west liberated Bergin Belsen and camps in Germany.
The Americans liberated Dachau, Buchenwald and other camps. As their armies advanced across Europe they found thousands of people imprisoned in camps. They encountered piles of corpses, and thousands of skeletal prisoners on the verge of death from malnutrition and disease. This was the first encounter with horror on an unimaginable scale of what would be known as the Holocaust.
This Holocaust crime came to be known as Genocide, an unprecedented case of Genocide. Soldiers viewed as Liberators had rescued the Jews of Europe.
I, with the Jewish people are grateful for the Liberators. May the world celebrate liberation for all people across the globe.
On this day in History, June 14, 1940
First prisoners at Auschwitz
On this day in 1940, the first transport of Polish political prisoners arrived at Auschwitz, which became Nazi Germany’s largest concentration, extermination, and slave-labour camp, where more than one million people died.
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