Statement on the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
January 27, 2015
January 27, 2015
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- The U.S. Mission to the United Nations issued the following statement by Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations:
On January 27, 1945 - seventy years ago today - Anatoly Shapiro was among the first officers from the Red Army to enter the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in the Polish town of Oswiecim. More than half of Shapiro's battalion had been killed in brutal fighting prior to that day, but nothing had prepared h . . .
On January 27, 1945 - seventy years ago today - Anatoly Shapiro was among the first officers from the Red Army to enter the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in the Polish town of Oswiecim. More than half of Shapiro's battalion had been killed in brutal fighting prior to that day, but nothing had prepared h . . .