Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. Israel and a number of others states commemorate the Holocaust in April, (the day changing every year as it's based on a lunar calendar) to coincide with the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.
On this day, January 27, 1945 the Soviet 322nd Rifle Division arrived at the gates of the German concntration/death camp at Auschwitz and liberated the remaining inmates.
Today also commemorates the end of the sige of Leningrad, now St Petersburg.
The Germans laid siege to the city on September 8, 1941.
During the siege, which was lifted by the Red Army on January 27, 1944, approximately 750,000 lives were lost
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