On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated when tanks of the First Ukrainian Front broke through the enclosures. Twenty-year-old Ihor Pobirchenko was the first to confront the horror perpetrated by the Nazis. Atop a tank, he saw humans hanging from the barbed-wire enclosure. They were alive, but barely: the fence was not electrified. The tanks … Continue reading Ukrainians forgotten heroes of Auschwitz