64 years have passed since day when Soviet troops, pursuing the retreating Germans from Poland, liberated Auschwitz. It was January 27, 1945 and the discovery of the largest concentration camp in Germany the whole world knew the horror of the greatest genocide that man had ever seen. Many knew, too many were silent at that heinous in human history. But when the doors were thrown open to Auschwitz by Russian soldiers, the scenario that presented itself was shocking. The smell of death was omnipresent. Thousands of skeletal bodies wandering in a state of trance acrid smell of the ovens off his breath. Auschwitz-Birkenau were killed and a half million Jews in the most atrocious ways, often within reach of the infamous showers instead of water coming out from where the deadly Zyklon-B, a poisonous gas usually used to exterminate insects. Many prisoners were used for experiments criminals, only to be killed in gas chambers and incinerated in the ovens. Others were kept in complete slavery to work the fields or in the laboratory until death occurs to the hardship, hunger and disease. The genocide that history has known no equal. Nobody would have thought that the hatred and pain that man can inflict on his fellow men could achieve such brutality. Yet all this really happened. Auschwitz concentration camp as the other structures were organized, managed in full awareness of Nazi killers. The prisoners were classified with symbols and colors that could be traced back to the extraction of business of the deported immediately. The red triangle was for political prisoners, the purple one for members of religious sects, the black for the people described as asocial, green for criminals, pink for homosexuals and the yellow star of David for Jews. A total of 6 million people were exterminated in concentration camps during that tragic period remembered as the Holocaust. 
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