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Holocaust survivors bear witness to horrors of Auschwitz

27.01.2020 16:00
Holocaust survivors have borne witness to the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau during events in Poland to mark 75 years since the liberation of the Nazi German death camp.
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Former prisoners during a wreath-laying ceremony on the site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland on Monday.
Former prisoners during a wreath-laying ceremony on the site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland on Monday.Photo: PAP/Andrzej Grygiel

Some 200 former prisoners from around the world took part in observances of the anniversary in the southern Polish town of Oświęcim on International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday.

They have traveled from across Europe as well as countries as far flung as the United States, Australia and Peru to offer their testimonies...

Radio Poland's Elżbieta Krajewska has the story.