Photos: Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation
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Auschwitz-80th Anniversary FILE - A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January, 1945, shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Nazi concentration camp. (AP Photo, File) (Uncredited/AP)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation A man walks past the ''Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Sets You Free) gate at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation People visit a surviving gas chamber and crematorium at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 25. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation People visit the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation A visitor walks by the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation Snow covers railroad tracks once used to transport Jews from across Europe to Auschwitz, the Nazi German extermination and labor camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, early Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation Visitors look at the Gestapo office at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation A visitor walks past a gas chamber and crematorium, where someone has left a rose, at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation People visit railroad tracks and a carriage used for prisoner transports in WWII, just outside the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 25. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation A visitor reflects in a window of a room with clothing representing the undressing of prisoners before the shooting execution at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation People visit inside the prisoner barracks at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 25. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation Flowers lie next to the old railroad tracks once used to transport Jews from across Europe to Auschwitz, at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 25. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation A view of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation A visitor enters a gas chamber and crematorium at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation Visitors walk along the old railroad tracks once used to transport Jews from across Europe to Auschwitz, at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation Shoes that were taken from prisoners are displayed at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation A wooden sign with the word STOP stands in front of what was an electric barbed wire fence inside the former Nazi German extermination and labor camp Auschwitz I, in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation Visitors walk through the ''Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Sets You Free) gate at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 25. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation A view from a guard tower at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation Snow blankets railroad tracks once used to transport Jews from across Europe to Auschwitz, the Nazi German extermination and labor camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation Visitors look at the remains of a gas chamber and crematorium at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 25. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation View of a wall inside gas chamber one at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation Old railroad tracks once used to transport Jews from across Europe to Auschwitz, the Nazi German extermination and labor camp, cuts through a field in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) (Oded Balilty)
