"Let us remember that we are on the site of the most gigantic cemetery in the world, a cemetery where there are no graves, no stones, but where the ashes of more than one million people lie."
— Polish Minister of Culture Waldemar Dabrowski, 2005.
Sixty-five years ago this week Soviet Red Army forces liberated Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland whose name would soon be synonymous throughout the world with ghastly horror.