“The sky was red, and the air smelled like burned meat. I didn’t understand it then, but my mother told me it was people. People like us.” — Ceija Stojka, Auschwitz survivor
Eighty years ago, the Soviet Red Army liberated survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi extermination camp in the Silesian region of southern Poland. The arrival of the Allies gave the world its first real glimpse of the horrors of the camp — even though there is evidence that British and American intelligence agencies knew of the industrial-scale killings in Auschwitz concentration and extermination camps.
