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As happens each year, candles were lighted on the graves in the cemetery at Brzeszcze on All Saints' Day. Columns of Auschwitz Concentration Camp prisoners passed right by this cemetery on January 18, 1945. That final evacuation of the camp is known as the Death March. More than 10,000 of the 50,000 prisoners evacuated are estimated to have died then—just a few days before the arrival of the Red Army, which liberated the camp on January 27.

As always, there were especially large numbers of candles on the graves of the eighteen Auschwitz prisoners murdered in Brzeszcze (a few kilometers from Oświęcim) on January 18, 1945, four months before the end of the Second World War.

It was mostly young...