Some 7,500 prisoners of the German Nazi camp Auschwitz, including over 500 children, were liberated on January 27, 1945 by Red Army soldiers.
Listen about the last days of the camp's operation and the moment of liberation. The podcast includes testimonies of:
Anna Tytoniak
Kazimierz Smoleń
Lea Shinar
Irena Konieczna
Józef Tabaczyński
Wanda Błachowska-Tarasiewicz
Louis Posner
Jakub Wolman
Zofia Jankowska-Palińska
Anna Chomicz
Zofia Lutomska-Kucharska
Wanda Dramińska
Edward Czempiel
Jakub Gordon
Andrzej Kozłowski
Tadeusz Mleko
Garnier (first name unknown)
Alfred Fiderkiewicz
Aleksander Vorontsov
Wilhelm Wazdrąg
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(English voiceovers: Mary Castillo, Toon Dreessen, Greg Littlefield, Ian Manger, Therese McLaughlin, Calum Melville, Mike Skagerlind, Grey Stafford, Michael Takiff, Tom Vamos, Kate Weinrieb, Sarah Weinstein Edwards).
On Auschwitz