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9th July 1942
It was agreed that we’d go into hiding on 16 July. Because of Margot’s call-up notice, the plan had to be moved forward ten days, which meant we’d have to make do with less orderly rooms.
Anne M Frank
65 years since the Liberation of Auschwitz

2010 marks the 65th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
In January 1945 7,000 Jews, Poles and gypsies were liberated In Auschwitz Main Camp and Birkenau.
Soviet soldiers discovered the corpses of approximately 600 prisoners who had been shot by the withdrawing SS or who had succumbed to exhaustion.
It is estimated that between 1.3 and 1.5 million people died at Auschwitz. The vast majority were Jews, but others were also murdered with 75,000 non-Jewish Poles, 18,000 Roma (Gypsies), and 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war also killed there.
First authorised translations of Diary into Arabic and Farsi
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