Location:
OSWIECIM, , POLAND
Post Date:
Dec 12, 2019 12:14 AM
TAG ID:
upiphotostwo717089
(RM)
Credit:
DEBBIE HILL/UPI/Newscom
Format:
4000 x 2667 Color JPEG
Photographer:
DEBBIE HILL
Keywords:
News, Features, POY2019, Holocaust
Release Status:
No Model Release, No Property Release
Caption:
Israeli youth wear the national flag while walking on the train track that carried Jews to their death at the entrance of the Nazi Germany Birkenau Concentration - Extermination Camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on Thursday, August 1, 2019. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest concentration camp and functioned from June 1940 - January 1945. Historians estimate that 1.1 million people were murdered there. More than 2.1 million people visited Auschwitz last year. Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI