Timeline Saturday 27 January 1945

Events on Saturday 27 January 1945 2

• 1945 Auschwitz liberated Soviets discover the death camp Soviet forces liberated the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex on January 27, 1945, finding 7,000 surviving prisoners. Over 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, had been murdered there.
• 1945 Liberation of Auschwitz Soviet troops free the largest Nazi death camp The Red Army entered Auschwitz-Birkenau on 27 January 1945, finding roughly 7,000 surviving prisoners. The camp had been the site of the murder of over a million people, mostly Jews, during the Holocaust. The date is now marked internationally as Holocaust Remembrance Day.