International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 marks the liberation of the biggest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz, by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945. The Holocaust was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. TASS remembers Holocaust survivors and victims in this photo gallery
Holocaust Remembrance Day
The International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 marks the liberation of the biggest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz, by Soviet forces in 1945
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Children survived in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, after its liberation by Soviet forces on 27 January 1945
© Fotokhronika TASS Gate tower, ramp and railway line at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp
© EPA/WIENER LIBRARY/FILE/HANDOUT Jews from Czechoslovakia, at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944
© AP Photo/Yad Vashem Photo Archives, HO Prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, 1944
© Fotokhronika TASS Shoes of Holocaust victims from Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
© Fotokhronika TASS Majdanek concentration camp, 1945
© Fotokhronika TASS Women and children, some of over 40,000 concentration camp inmates liberated by the British in a barrack at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, 1945
© AP Photo Bones and ashes of the people cremated by Nazis in Majdanek concentration camp
© Fotokhronika TASS/Viktor Tyomin Auschwitz concentration camp inmates released by Soviet soldiers
© Fotokhronika TASS Children, the few remaining survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp after their liberation by the Soviet army
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Nabatov Prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp after it was liberated by US troops in 1945
© ITAR-TASS/Stanislav Krasilnikov Visitors at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland, Monday, 2015
© AP Photo/Alik Keplicz Portraits of child prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
© ITAR-TASS/Anatoly Strunin Polish survivors at a ceremony to commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen, 2007, Austria. The concentration camp was liberated by US troops on May 5, 1945
© AP Photo/rubra Memorial stones with the names of prisoners who died in the Woebbelin Nazi concentration camp, Germany, 2014
© AP Photo/dpa, Jens Buettner