1945/01/27 – Befreiung Auschwitz Birkenau

Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp is liberated by soldiers of the Soviet Red Army. The SS guards had previously forced around 56,000 prisoners on death marches. Around 7,000 men, women and children are liberated in the Auschwitz main camp, in camp Birkenau and camp Monowitz. It is not known whether any Sinti and Roma were among them.