World leaders and holocaust survivors gathered to
commemorate at Auschwitz, around 300 former prisoners are also taking part in the
events The concentration camp was liberated on 27 January 1947 by
the Soviet army. 70th anniversary survivors mark camp liberation
We survivors do not want our past to be our children's
future," Roman Kent, born in 1929, told a memorial gathering at the death
camp's site in Poland.
Some 300 Auschwitz survivors returned for the ceremony under
a giant tent.
Some 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were killed there
between 1940 and 1945, when Soviet troops liberated it.
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