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FACT v REPLICA: This photo is captioned as depicting the liberation of the Auschwitz/Oswiecim on January 27 1945. Some of the liberation photos were taken a few weeks later during a reenactment for the press cameras / Pic: Olga Vsevolodovna Ignatovich/Boevoye Znamya front line newspaper
Culture / 1 September 2025
1 September 2025

The replica ultimately reveals a tension between growing public demand for cultural Holocaust production and the difficulty in cultivating ethical representations of the event, writes EMILY-ROSE BAKER