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Jan 27 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
77 years ago today over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today we all remember. We must remember. | #Auschwitz77
Between 1940-1945 German Nazis deported ca. 1,3 million people to #Auschwitz: 1,1 mln Jews, 150k Poles, 23k Roma, 15k Soviet POWs & 25k others incl. almost 400 Jehova's witnesses and at least 77 homosexuals. Around 1,1 million people were murdered in Auschwitz, 90% Jews.
Out of 1,3 million deported, 400,000 people became prisoners of the camp while 900,000 people were murdered in gas chambers after arrival. The estimated number of people murdered in the Auschwitz camp is 1 mln Jews, 75k Poles, 21k Roma, 14k Soviet POWs & 12k others.

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Before the 77th anniversary of the liberation of #Auschwitz we bring together the most important facts about the last stage of the operation of this German Nazi camp. See the rest of this [THREAD] below. 1/11
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24 January 1932 | A Pole, Bogdan Bartnikowski, was born in Warsaw.

He arrived at #Auschwitz in a transport from the Warsaw Uprising on 12 August 1944
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18 January 1945 | In the early morning female camp at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau began the evacuation. On that day 5,345 women left the camp and began the Death March. #Auschwitz77
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