--- title: Holocaust Memorial Day: TIME's 1945 Report on the Horrors of Dachau description: Jan. 27 is the U.N.-designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day canonical: https://time.com/3679153/1945-report-dachau/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-27T14:00:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:06:05.017Z article:section: History og:title: Holocaust Memorial Day: TIME's 1945 Report on the Horrors of Dachau og:description: Jan. 27 is the U.N.-designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day og:url: https://time.com/3679153/1945-report-dachau/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d31eb7b192c5999/69877b65a988ca0bb46ac0ba/1101450507_400.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hitler TIME cover og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Holocaust Memorial Day: TIME's 1945 Report on the Horrors of Dachau twitter:description: Jan. 27 is the U.N.-designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d31eb7b192c5999/69877b65a988ca0bb46ac0ba/1101450507_400.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read TIME's 1945 Report on the Horrors of Dachau  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jan 27, 2015 2:00 PM UTC  The May 7, 1945, cover of TIME The May 7, 1945, cover of TIMECover Credit: BORIS ARTZYBASHEFF  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jan 27, 2015 2:00 PM UTC [Holocaust Memorial Day](http://hmd.org.uk/page/stockholm-declaration) is observed in many nations on the day of the liberation of Auschwitz — 70 years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945 — but it is designed to also encourage remembrance of those killed by Nazis elsewhere. (Some nations observe days of remembrance on other dates.) When the May 7, 1945, issue of TIME was published, those memories were still fresh. The magazine’s correspondent Sidney Olson had just accompanied the U.S. Army during the liberation of Dachau, and the report he filed would have shocked even readers who were aware of the Nazis’ crimes. This is what he wrote: --- > “” --- **_Read the full story here in the TIME Vault:_** [Dachau](http://time.com/vault/issue/1945-05-07/page/34/) ### Ghosts in the Sun: Hitler's Personal Photographer at Dachau, 1950  Dachau 1950. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Dachau 1950. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Dachau 1950. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Memorial, Dachau, 1950. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Dachau, 1950. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Oven, Dachau, 1950. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Crematorium, Dachau, 1950. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Dachau, 1950. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Dachau, 1950. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Dachau, 1950. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Dachau, 1950. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Dachau, 1950. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Dachau, 1950. Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Dachau, 1950. 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