Oct-14 5:35pm SBS-TV: Auschwitz – The Hidden Traces
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Auschwitz, in German-occupied Poland, was the largest Nazi concentration camp and extermination complex of the war.
Over one million Jews were deported there from all over the continent. Eighty per cent of them were murdered as soon as they arrived. At the end of the war, many traces of the Auschwitz camps were destroyed, notably by the Nazis themselves. But thanks to the work of historians, some exceptional documents have been discovered: drawings by former prisoners, testimonies buried in the ground, and rarely-seen photo albums.
