Poland - The 65th Anniversary of Liberation of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau 2010

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The 65th Anniversary of Liberation of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, a 2010 uncirculated 2 zloty coin from Poland.

The National Bank of Poland is proud to offer this 2010 2 Zloty coin commemorating the 65th anniversary of the liberation of KL Auschwitz-Birkena, a German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, by the soldiers of the Red Army. This coin shows an image of the three prisoners from the painting ‘Phantoms are coming back’ by Czeslaw Lenczowski, a stylized image of the inscription over the entrance gate to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp: ARBEIT MACHT FREI (work makes you free) and the inscriptions: 65., ROCZNICA OSWOBODZENIA (anniversary of liberation), and KL AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU.

The Auschwitz concentration camp was established in mid-1940 as the number of detained Poles in German-occupied country kept rising. The oldest part of the camp, the so-called mother camp (Auschwitz I) was established at the site of old military barracks. In the autumn of 1941 in the nearby Birkenau (Brzezinka) village, the Germans started the construction of the second part of the camp. It was called Auschwitz II (or Birkenau). At a given point in time it accommodated almost 100,000 inmates. This was where the majority of the extermination infrastructure was built – including gas chambers and crematoria. Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated on 27 January 1945 by the soldiers of the Red Army.