whitepeoplestealingculture:

Today marks the international remembrance day of the Holocaust. 

Seventy years ago on January 27, 1945, the Soviet Union liberated those in the Auschwitz concentration camp under the Nazi regime.

Auschwitz was a network of concentration camps built and operated in occupied Poland by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Auschwitz I and nearby Auschwitz II-Birkenau were the extermination camps where an estimated 1.1 million people—mostly Jews from across Europe, but also political opponents, prisoners of war, homosexuals, and Roma—were killed in gas chambers or by systematic starvation, forced labor, disease, or medical experiments. About 200,000 camp inmates survived the ordeal.  

The Atlantic has beautiful pictures on their website for this day. 

During the war, an estimate of 5,933,900 people of the Jewish population were systematically murdered during World War II under Nazi persecution. In Eastern Europe, half a million of the entire Roma population was wiped out while thousands died in the concentration camps. Five thousand to fifteen thousand homosexuals were killed in concentration camps as well. (x)

An additional eleven million were killed in the duration of the Second World War due to religion, mental disorders, physical and learning disabilities, being transgendered, and political opponents. Those that had Black descent were also sterilized for the Aryan race. 

(Source: takingbackourculture, via that-goddamn-owl)