Auschwitz concentration camp
LIBERATION OF AUSCHWITZ by RED ARMY Liberation of Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz by Soviet Army

The camp became a major site of the Nazis’ Final Solution to the Jewish Question, where more than one million Jews, Poles, Romani and Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) were exterminated, many in gas chambers. 

Polish communists protest demolition of WW2 memorial Polish communists protest demolition of WW2 memorial

The Polish Communist Party said the recent dismantling of the monument dedicated to Red Army soldiers was similar to the acts of the Taliban and Islamic State against historical structures