Today, January 27, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp. On this day in 1945, Soviet troops liberated the camp, uncovering the horrors of the Holocaust.
![Soon after liberation, surviving children of the Auschwitz camp walk out of the children's barracks. [LCID: 70262]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/50083758-e1cc-458c-86a0-173b2f517d99.jpg "Soon after liberation, surviving children of the Auschwitz camp walk out of the children's barracks. [LCID: 70262]")
Soon after liberation, surviving children of the Auschwitz camp walk out of the children’s barracks. Poland, after January 27, 1945.
Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers. May 1944.
A transport of Jews from Hungary arrives at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Poland, May 1944.
![Identification pictures of a Jewish inmate of the Auschwitz camp. [LCID: 90350]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/9d0b7c23-5385-4ffa-a015-f4c3fdaaebb0.jpg "Identification pictures of a Jewish inmate of the Auschwitz camp. [LCID: 90350]")
Identification pictures of a Jewish inmate of the Auschwitz camp. Poland, between 1940 and 1945.
![Identification pictures of a female inmate of the Auschwitz camp. [LCID: 90354]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/3a4e6972-13a1-4b5c-823c-8e8f63495b55.jpg "Identification pictures of a female inmate of the Auschwitz camp. [LCID: 90354]")
Identification pictures of a female inmate of the Auschwitz camp. Poland, between 1942 and 1945.