Stock Photo - Two metal sculptures commemorate the families who were toren apart on the ramp when the deportation trains arrived with prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, 5 October 2014. SS officers separated the prisoners into unfit to work, old, children, sick and forced labourers. German companies and enterprises used forced labourers for their production sites in and around Auschwitz. Only 15 to 20 per cent of arriving prisoners from each deportation train were left alive to serve as forced labourers, everyone else was sent straight to the gas chambers. The camp was liberated by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945 and was turned into a memorial site and museum in 1947. Photo: Frank Schumann/dpa - NO WIRE SERVICE - | usage worldwide. - Oswiecim/Poland

Stock Photo: Two metal sculptures commemorate the families who were toren apart on the ramp when the deportation trains arrived with prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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