The Red Army Choir named after A.V. Alexandrov, the leading military music ensemble in Russia, will celebrate its 95th birthday in October. The choir of the Alexandrov Ensemble is recognized as one of the best male choirs in the world. 73 years ago, the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz
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27.01.2018
The Red Army has liberated the Nazis' biggest concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in south-western Poland on January 27, 1945. According to reports, over 1 million Jews, and also several thousands of Polish, Roma and Sinti, Soviet prisoners-of-war were imprisoned there in terrible conditions, and later killed in the gas chambers. When the Red Army arrived at the camp they found only a few thousand prisoners remaining. Most of them were too sick to leave.
In 1947, the camp was turned into a museum. This date is marked worldwide as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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The Red Army Choir named after A.V. Alexandrov, the leading military music ensemble in Russia, will celebrate its 95th birthday in October. The choir of the Alexandrov Ensemble is recognized as one of the best male choirs in the world. 
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