Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
The main observances take place at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered over a million people
Survivors centre stage for 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
The 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz. — Auschwitz is, for the world today, a symbol of the Holocaust and atrocities of World War II. In 2005, the United Nations adopted 27 January as the International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day. — Photo: © Adam Bujak / File
Just 50 Holocaust survivors will be at Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of its liberation
The dwindling numbers offer a stark representation of the declining population of survivors who are still able to tell their stories.
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The early 20th century tyrannies concluded with Soviet gulags and Nazi camps for those who questioned authority. Genocide became a legalized and socially accepted political tool. People were surfeit with and directed by ideologically dictated hatred of the politically singled out other. The world succumbed to Auschwitz.
Survivors return as world remembers Auschwitz 80 years after liberation
But it will be the survivors - most in their late 80s and 90s - not the dignitaries, whose voices will be heard during the commemorations at the camp, where 1.1 people were murdered, most of them Jews.
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