75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

In 1945 Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in the south of what was Nazi-occupied Poland.

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Thousands of Jewish prisoners were still in the camp where, between May 1940 and January 1945 more than 1.1 million people, mainly Jews, were killed.

Massimo Finzi, member of the Jewish Community in Rome, talks about the deportation of thousands of Italian Jews to the concentration and extermination camps by the Nazis.

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Visitors alongside photos of concentration camp liberators and survivors in an exhibition dedicated to the Nazi death camps. Source: Getty Images Europe

A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January, 1945. Source: CAF PAP

Fosse comuni ad Auschwitz. Source: Mondadori Portfolio Editorial