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Photos: Auschwitz then and now

January 27, 2015 5:00AM ET

Images of the notorious concentration camp on the 70th anniversary of its liberation

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Auschwitz liberation concentration camp
Auschwitz prisoners inside the camp gate as Soviet troops arrive sometime in late January 1945. The Red Army was the first Allied force to reach the camp and liberate the prisoners. Keystone-France / Getty Images
Auschwitz liberation concentration camp
Visitors to Auschwitz, Jan. 25, 2015, behind barbed-wire fences at the memorial site of the former Nazi concentration camp, days before the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. Joel Saget / AFP / Getty Images
Auschwitz liberation concentration camp
A Red Army doctor, center, with a group of survivors at the entrance to the newly liberated Auschwitz, January 1945. The motto above the entrance reads Arbeit macht Frei (“Work makes freedom”). Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Images
Auschwitz liberation concentration camp
Auschwitz survivor Mordechai Ronen of the U.S. is comforted by his son as he is overcome by emotion at the entrance to Auschwitz, Jan. 26, 2015. Ronen was 11 when he arrived at the death camp. His mother and sister died while interned there. Odd Andersen / AFP / Getty Images
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Women in their barracks at Auschwitz, January 1945. The photo was taken by a Russian photographer shortly after the liberation of the camp. Galerie Bilderwelt / Getty Images
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One of the barracks, now part of a museum, Jan. 19, 2015. Pawel Ulatowski / Reuters
Auschwitz liberation concentration camp
Until 1942, photographs like these were taken of the prisoners. This is said to be a French boy. Galerie Bilderwelt / Getty Images
Auschwitz liberation concentration camp
Camp survivor Jacek Nadolny, 77, who was registered as prisoner No. 192685, in Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 7, 2015. He was 7 when his family was sent to Auschwitz. Kacper Pempel / Reuters
Auschwitz liberation concentration camp
Hungarian Jews, wearing the yellow Star of David that identified them as Jewish, arrive by train at the camp in June 1944. Upon arrival, prisoners were separated into those strong enough to work and those deemed too weak or infirm, who were sent to die in the gas chambers. Galerie Bilderwelt / Getty Images
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A lone wagon near the remains of the infamous Death Gate, the entrance to Auschwitz II, also known as Birkenau, in November 2014. Christopher Furlong / Getty Images
Auschwitz liberation concentration camp
After prisoners were killed in the gas chambers, their corpses were taken by other prisoners to incinerator rooms, where the bodies were cremated one after another or in groups. Votava / Imagno / Getty Images
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Auschwitz survivor Johnny Pekats of the U.S. at a crematorium that is now part of the museum at the camp. Janek Skarzynski / AFP / Getty Images
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An emaciated survivor after liberation, 1945. It is estimated that 1.1 million people died at Auschwitz during its nearly five years in operation. Votava / Imagno / Getty Images
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Auschwitz survivors in Krakow, Poland, Jan. 26, 2015, at a gathering to honor the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. The filmmaker Steven Spielberg stands in the middle at the rear. Ian Gavan / Getty Images