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Friday, March 29, 2024

Auschwitz-Birkenau as it's never been seen before

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Auschwitz-Birkenau as it's never been seen before
Auschwitz-Birkenau as it's never been seen before

Drone footage captures the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau as the museum on the site prepares to mark 75 years since the camp's liberation by the Soviet Red Army during the closing months of World War II on Jan.

27.

Auschwitz was the largest of the concentration camps and extermination centres built by the Nazis in occupied Poland, with more than 1.1 million men, women and children dying there.

Most of them were Jews, some six million of whom were killed in the Holocaust.

World leaders will attend ceremonies in Israel and Poland for the anniversary.

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