Video: 'Anniversity of the Liberation of Gross-Rosen'

(Wednesday, February 14, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Gross-Rosen concentration camp, a Nazi German network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated in the village of Gross-Rosen not far from the border with occupied Poland, was captured today by the Red Army.

A total of 125,000 inmates of various nationalities passed through the complex since the Summer of 1940, of whom an estimated 40,000 died on site, on death marches and in evacuation transports.

Video: 'Gross-Rosen concentration camp. By Sam Wakene.'