Concentration camp in Auschwitz, 2014 (photo)

The main gate house of Auschwitz concentration camp is covered in mist in Oswiecim, Poland, 5 October 2014. Deportation trains carrying prisoners from from countires occupied by Nazi Germany arrived through this main gate house from 1944 onwards. Only 15 to 20 per cent of arriving prisoners from each deportation train were left alive to serve as forced labourers or were sent directly to the gas chambers. An estimated 1.5 million people were murdered in Auschwitz. The camp was liberated by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945 and was turned into a memorial site and museum in 1947.