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'We were stripped of all our humanity': Auschwitz survivors remember | 'We were stripped of all our humanity': Auschwitz survivors remember |
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Holocaust survivors have been marking 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, in Poland. | Holocaust survivors have been marking 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, in Poland. |
Tova Friedman, 86, Leon Weintraub, 99, Marian Turski, 98, and Janina Iwanska, 94, are all survivors who shared their haunting memories of Auschwitz at a ceremony on Monday in front of world leaders. | |
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. | 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. | 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. |
Video journalists: Gabriela Boccaccio & Jack Burgess | Video journalists: Gabriela Boccaccio & Jack Burgess |
Follow our live coverage of Monday's commemorations | Follow our live coverage of Monday's commemorations |