Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 81st anniversary of that liberation. Commemorations are taking place at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial in Poland, at the United Nations headquarters in New York and at memorial sites around the world.

An assembly framework and video to help mark Holocaust Memorial Day. 27 January marks the day in 1945 when soldiers of the Soviet Union liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. More than 1 million men,

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed across the world on Jan. 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious of the Nazi German death camps. The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution in 2005 establishing the day as an annual commemoration.

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. On Jan. 27, 1945, the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland was liberated from Nazi control by the Soviet Red Army.

Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, but honoring the lives lost during that time is something our Jewish community here in Charleston holds close and the impact of the Holocaust never fades.

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it’s timely to reflect on how the liberation of the camps was reported at the time – and how it changed journalism.