Photo: Barbora Němcová, Radio Prague International
Eighty years ago, Allied forces reached and entered the now-infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. The event provided the date for the modern International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which offers Czechia a chance to reflect on the horrors of the Holocaust, and to consider what work still needs to be done.
It was on January 27th 1945 that Russian soldiers, as part of the Red Army’s western push, arrived at the complex of concentration and extermination camps known collectively as Auschwitz.
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Author: Danny Bate