On January 27 of 1945, the largest Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Soviet soldiers. The soldiers liberated 7,000 prisoners in the main camp, and then 500 more in Birkenau’s sub-camps. After the soviets broke through German defenses, Nazis forced the prisoners on death marches as an evacuation that was in extremely cold conditions, leading them to other concentration camps. Up to 15,000 prisoners were killed on these marches, and those who did survive were relocated to other concentration camps in the west of Germany. In addition, the Nazis burned documents and destroyed crematoria killing sites. Soviet soldiers were not initially ordered to liberate Auschwitz, but when a group of scouts discovered Auschwitz on January 27, the soldiers knew immediate action was in order. On this day of remembrance, we remember all of the 6 million Jewish victims and the 5 million non-Jewish victims whose lives were taken under the atrocities of the Holocaust.