Historical Photos of Bergen-Belsen
When the Soviet army soldiers arrived at Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, the first discovery was a warehouse packed with eyeglasses, limbs, pots, and numerous pairs of shoes. initially, they thought that the camp was deserted, but it was found that prisoners were left behind by fleeing nazi officers. Georgii Elisavetskii, a Soviet soldier, vividly recalls the scene.