On January 2024 we can celebrate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Union. We have spoken about Auschwitz before. You may remember that the number of deaths was lowered from about 4 million to 1.1 million people that died in this concentration camp during world war II (1). There also was this strange letter from the Red Cross in which we could read that a delegate this organization was unable to “discover any trace of installations for exterminating civilian prisoners” (2).

And then I came across an account by Eva Schloss, who was the stepsister of Anne Frank. In 2020 she claimed that the pictures that the Soviet Union presented of the liberation of Auschwitz were not actually from the liberation, since there was a lot of snow at the time. There’s no snow to be seen on the pictures. Eva Schloss (3) checked this at the Russian embassy and they acknowledged that they didn’t have any cameras with them at the time and that they used either actors or photographs of other prisoners, not from Auschwitz.

FOOTNOTES
(1) Number of Deaths in Auschwitz reduced from 4 million to 1.1 Million in the 1990s
(2) A Remarkable letter from the International Red Cross on Auschwitz from November 22, 1944 – quote from
(3) Anne Frank’s step-sister and Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss claims photos of the Soviet liberation of Auschwitz are FAKE because soldiers hadn’t brought cameras and were taken at other camps
(4) https://x.com/IanMalcolm84/status/1771168239432695943
(5) Eva Schloss: A Survivor’s Story – YouTube

Image on top is from (5)