Nellis hosts Holocaust Remembrance Week

AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, Poland – Barracks and the dining facility at Auschwitz are among the things tourists can see when visiting the concentration camp. As the Soviet army was entering Krakow, Poland, in January 1945 the Nazi ordered that Auschwitz be abandoned. Approximately 60,000 prisoners were forced marched 30 miles, and the ones who survived the march were sent to concentration camps in Germany. The Soviet army entered Auschwitz Jan. 27, the found approximately 7,600 sick and emaciated prisoners who’d be left behind. They also found mounds of dead bodies. Other times found by the Soviet army include hundreds of thousands of pieces of clothing and shoes, and seven tons of human hair that had been shaved from the prisoners before they entered the gas chamber. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Master Sgt. Kelley J. Stewart)

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Nellis hosts Holocaust Remembrance Week

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AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, Poland – Barracks and the dining facility at Auschwitz are among the things tourists can see when visiting the concentration camp. As the Soviet army was entering Krakow, Poland, in January 1945 the Nazi ordered that Auschwitz be abandoned. Approximately 60,000 prisoners were forced marched 30 miles, and the ones who survived the march were sent to concentration camps in Germany. The Soviet army entered Auschwitz Jan. 27, the found approximately 7,600 sick and emaciated prisoners who’d be left behind. They also found mounds of dead bodies. Other times found by the Soviet army include hundreds of thousands of pieces of clothing and shoes, and seven tons of human hair that had been shaved from the prisoners before they entered the gas chamber. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Master Sgt. Kelley J. Stewart)

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