As in previous years, the commemoration will begin around 10:00 a.m.
The ceremony will be attended by former inmates and the staff of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, who care for the site daily, according to museum spokesman Paweł Sawicki.
Holocaust survivors will be joined by top officials, including Polish President Karol Nawrocki, as well as delegations from various countries.
Photo: PAP/Jarek Praszkiewicz
Established by the Germans in 1940, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp became a central site of the Nazi genocide.
Over the course of its operation, more than 1 million people were murdered there, primarily Jews, but also Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and prisoners of other nationalities.
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Source: IAR
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