Survivors of Auschwitz visited the site of the former concentration camp in Poland on Monday to mark the 70th anniversary of its liberation.
The private visits by survivors to the camp came on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which honors those who lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators, including six million Jews and members of other persecuted groups.
1.1 million people were killed by the Nazi regime at Auschwitz, which was initally built in Oświęcim, Poland, in 1940 for Polish prisoners, but later became the largest death camp for European Jews. 90 percent …read more
Source: Newsweek
