Polish President Andrzej Duda remembered the victims of the Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, as 80th anniversary commemorations got under way on Monday. "We Poles, on whose land occupied by Nazi Germany this extermination industry and this concentration camp were built,
World leaders and a dwindling group of survivors joined in a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp by the Red Army.
The anniversary has taken on added poignancy due to the advanced age of the survivors, and an awareness that they will soon be gone.
Auschwitz survivors and Poland's President Andrzej Duda paid tribute on Jan. 27, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp.
Polish President Andrzej Duda remembered the victims of the Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, as commemorations got under way on Monday to mark 80 years since the death camp was liberated towards the end of World War II.
Elderly camp survivors, some wearing striped scarves that recall their prison uniforms, walked to the the Death Wall, where prisoners were executed. Across Europe, officials were pausing to remember.
Commemorations at the concentration camp began earlier when Poland’s president Andrzej Duda joined Auschwitz survivors in laying wreaths and candles at a symbolic site. Their tributes were left ...
Survivors of the Nazi's notorious Auschwitz death camp are taking center stage at the memorial service to mark 80 years since its liberation by Soviet troops.
Auschwitz survivors warned of the dangers of rising antisemitism on Monday, as they marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp by Soviet troops in one of the last such gatherings of those who experienced its horrors.
The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being ... Polish President Andrzej Duda, whose nation lost 6 million citizens during the war, placed a candle at the Death ...
Around 50 survivors of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz gathered together for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp.