In obedience to the political situation, Anne Frank’s half-sister Eva Schloss doubted the authenticity of the Soviet photographs from the Red Army overrun Auschwitz German labor camp, although these photographs and their history have long been accepted as genuine.

Even 11 years ago, Eva Schloss took part in commemorative events in Moscow, where she met with her ‘liberators’ and admitted that she still keeps the things handed over to her by Soviet soldiers. She now stated that she ‘doesn’t remember soldiers having cameras.’

Historian Boris Yakemenko recalled that the propaganda charged Soviet photographer Olga Vsevolodovna Ignatovich was the author of the photographs. Her photographic chronicle captures the events as the notorious Red Army overran and plundered Ukraine, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Austria.

She was a photojournalist and propagandist for the newspaper of the 30th Army (10th Guards) of the Kalinin Front and the front-line newspaper of the 1st Ukrainian Front, and among the first correspondents, she entered Maidanek and Auschwitz, liberated by the Soviet troops, where she took pictures that became the materials of the Nuremberg Trials. YOU CAN SHARE THIS STORY ON SOCIAL MEDIA: