The infamous words Arbeit Macht Frei or Work Makes You Free are seen on the gates of the Nazi Concentration Camp Auschwitz in Krakow, Poland [GETTY]
Published On 11 Aug 201011 Aug 2010
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Anatoly Samuilovich Vanukevich survived imprisonment at Auschwitz as a child [GETTY]
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Thousands of Berlin Jews were taken from Track 17 at Grunewald train station to concentration camps, mainly Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, between 1941 and 1944 [GETTY]
Aushwitz-Birkenau was established in 1940 for Polish political prisoners but the Nazis soon began to deport people from all over Europe to the camp, mainly Jews [GETTY]
From 1942 Aushwitz became the biggest centre for the mass extermination of Jews. Figures vary but a conservative estimate puts the number of Jews murdered there at 1.5 million [GETTY]
A detail from the original blueprints of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp [GETTY]
Shoes belonging to camp inmates can be seen at the Auschwitz concentration camp museum [GETTY]
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Auschwitz survivor Leon Greenman displays his number tattoo [GETTY]
The interior of the crematoria at Auschwitz [GETTY]
The camp was liberated by the Soviet army on January 27, 1945 [GETTY]
