Elimination of evidence at Auschwitz

In view of the ever approaching eastern front, Reichsführer SS and Reich Interior Minister Heinrich Himmler issues an order on 26 November 1944 to halt gassings at Auschwitz and eliminate evidence of their existence. The 56,000 emaciated prisoners still living there – among them Anne Frank – are evacuated to other camps by means of harrowing transports and „death marches“. Soldiers of the Red Army are not able to liberate Auschwitz Concentration Camp until  27 January 1945. By this time 7,600 prisoners can still be found there. Since 1940 over a million people had met their deaths at the camp.

Source: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Children in Auschwitz wearing clothes of murdered adults