The 81st anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. 3 pm - studio The broadcast will also include an international discussion studio before and after the main commemoration event, featuring figures from Poland and around the world engaged in shaping the memory of Auschwitz. Guests in the first part of the programme will include: Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz | Historian, Head of the Research Centerat the Auschwitz Museum Dr. Igor Bartosik | Historian,

The train track into Auschwitz-Birkenau, operational mainly in 1944, was a direct line built by the Nazis, allowing trains to enter the camp's interior, leading right to the gas chambers for mass extermination, a crucial part of the Holocaust's "Final Solution," where victims were transported by rail from across occupied Europe. #auschwitz_birkenau #Auschwitz #Holocaust #ww2history #auschwitzconcentrationcamp | Donny knight

On June 14, 1940, the first transport of prisoners was brought to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. That first transport consisted of 728 Polish political prisoners, among whom were also a small number of Jews. As the Holocaust progressed, the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp became one of the main sites of the Shoah - the mass murder of European Jewry. Nearly 1.1 million people were put to death there between 1940 and 1945, the great majority of whom were Jewish. Over time, Aus