The Nazis got defeated on 8 May and the Russians infiltrated the concentration camps on January 27, 1945, After the holocaust, Auschwitz was discovered in April 1946.
More than four hundred antisemitic laws were enacted by the Nazis between 1933 and 1938. In November 1938, the situation worsened, as hundreds of Jews were tortured and arrested and thousands of businesses were destroyed in a targeted pogrom known as Kristallnacht. The persecution of Jews intensified as the Nazis invaded Poland on 1 September 1939 at the start of the Second World War.