Dozens of Auschwitz survivors placed wreaths and flowers at the infamous execution wall of the former German death camp, paying homage to the victims of Adolf Hitler’s regime exactly 72 years after the camp’s liberation.
Survivors gathered with political leaders and representatives of Poland’s Jewish community at the site where about 1.1 million people were murdered during World War II, mostly Jewish people from across Europe, but also Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and others.
January 27, the anniversary of the day that the Soviet army liberated the camp in German-occupied Poland in 1945, is recognised as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Elderly survivors at Auschwitz, which today is a memorial site and museum, paid homage to those killed by wearing striped scarves reminiscent of the garb prisoners once wore.
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