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Vigil held at 'death wall' in Auschwitz, 80 years on 'We were stripped of all our humanity': Auschwitz survivors remember
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Survivors from Auschwitz have begun commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Poland. Holocaust survivors have been marking 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, in Poland.
People walked up to the 'death wall' and left candles to pay their respects outside Block 11 in Auschwitz, where thousands of prisoners were executed by SS officers. Marian Turski, 98, Janina Iwanska, 94, and Tova Friedman, 86, are all survivors who shared their haunting memories of Auschwitz at a ceremony on Monday in front of world leaders.
Polish President Andrzej Duda also gave a speech marking the first part of a day of tributes. People also walked up to the 'death wall' and left candles to pay their respects outside Block 11 in Auschwitz, where thousands of prisoners were executed by SS officers.
Some 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered at the Auschwitz complex, making it the site of the largest mass execution of human beings ever recorded.
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