In pics: Survivors mark 72nd anniversary of Nazi Concentration Camp
13 April 2017 11:06 AM IST13 April 2017 11:06 AM IST
German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish
From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe, where they were killed with the pesticide Zyklon B.- Former Nazi concentration camp survivor Marian Wach of Poland mourns between the flowers during the commemoration ceremonies for the 72th anniversary of the liberation of former Nazi concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora near Nordhausen, central Germany
- Former Nazi concentration camp survivors Alexander Bytschok of Kiev, Ukraine waits in his camp uniform from 1942 at the commemoration ceremonies for the 72th anniversary of the liberation of former Nazi concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora near Nordhausen, central Germany
- Nazi concentration camp survivor Petro Fedorowitsch Mischuk of Ukraine walks with a Ukrainian flag along the camp ground during the commemoration ceremonies for the 72th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany
- Nazi concentration camp survivor Alexander Bytschok of Kiev, Ukraine, mourns on a metal plaque during the commemoration ceremonies for the 72th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany
- The prisoners remaining at the camp were liberated on 27 January 1945, a day now commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- In the course of the war, the camp was staffed by 7,000 members of the German Schutzstaffel (SS), approximately 12 percent of whom were later convicted of war crimes.
- Others deported to Auschwitz included 150,000 Poles, 23,000 Romani and Sinti, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, 400 Jehovah's Witnesses, and tens of thousands of others of diverse nationalities.
- An estimated 1.3 million people were sent to the camp, of whom at least 1.1 million died. Around 90 percent of those killed were Jewish; approximately 1 in 6 Jews killed in the Holocaust died at the camp
From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp\'s gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe, where they were killed with the pesticide Zyklon B.
German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish
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