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Do you recognize the monument in this photo?
Apart from experts, it is difficult to answer.
We all know that on January 27 the liberation of the Auschwitz Camp is celebrated (from 1945) but it was not the first camp to be liberated.
The Red Army arrived in Majdanek in Lublin (Poland) on July 22, 1944 finding crematory ovens, mass graves and packages of poison gas: all clear evidences of the mass murder.
Although the Nazis were able to burn the field before escaping, many evidences of the Holocaust remained intact.
Although the Nazis were able to burn the field before escaping, many evidences of the Holocaust remained intact.
The photo depicts the monument to the victims of the Majadnek Camp, the first extermination camp liberated, almost a year before the Auschwitz Camp's liberation.