Holocaust survivors were celebrating 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, in Poland.
Marian Turski, 98, Janina Iwanska, 94, and Tova Friedman, 86, are all survivors who shared their haunting memories of Auschwitz at a ceremony Monday in front of world leaders.
People also walked to the “Wall of Death” and left candles to pay their respects outside Block 11 in Auschwitz, where thousands of prisoners were executed by SS officers.
About 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered at the Auschwitz complex, making it the site of the largest mass execution of humans ever recorded.
Video journalists: Gabriella Boccaccio and Jack Burgess
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