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World leaders have joined around 300 Holocaust survivors at an event to mark 70 years since Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp.
The gathering in southern Poland marks perhaps the last major anniversary that survivors of the camp will be able to attend in such numbers - the youngest are now in their 70s.
Around 1.5 million people, mainly European Jews, were gassed, shot, hanged and burned at the camp in southern Poland during World War II, before the Red Army entered its gates in winter 1945.
It has become probably the most poignant symbol of a Holocaust that claimed six million Jewish lives across Europe.
The presidents of Poland, Germany, France were among hundreds attending the commemoration in a giant tent erected over the brickwork entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, part of the complex that is now a museum.
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Gallery: Holocaust Survivors Mark Auschwitz Liberation
About 300 Holocaust survivors gathered to mark 70 years since Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski (C) lays a wreath at the 'Wall of Death' in the camp
A survivor touches the 'Wall of Death'
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg (2R) at Auschwitz
Spielberg attends a ceremony unveiling the Pillars of Remembrance at the memorial site
The railway tracks that bore Jews in train wagons from all across Europe to their deaths were lit up gold, the countryside around covered in deep snow.
One 88-year-old Auschwitz survivor - who sang a memorial prayer during the commemoration - said the Holocaust was "almost impossible for a human mind to comprehend", adding that he "prays to God that we as human beings are able to learn something from it".
Another, Rose Schindler, explained how only 11 of her loved ones survived the Holocaust, out of more than 300 relatives.
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Gallery: Portraits Of Auschwitz Survivors
Auschwitz death camp survivor Jacek Nadolny, 77. Jacek was seven during the Warsaw Uprising, when he was sent with his family to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train
Jacek holds up a wartime photo of his family. In January 1945 the family were moved to a labour camp in Berlin
Once the 85-year-old arrived at Auschwitz, she was chosen for slave labour and was given no chance to say goodbye to her parents and four siblings.
"I have no graves for my mother, sisters, my brother and my father. So this somehow is a way to say goodbye," she added.
Holocaust survivor Eizbieta Soczunska said: "In our minds we are still here, even if we are not here in person, and we want to underline that the children of Auschwitz are standing here today."
David Wisnia said: "I gave up anger long time ago because you are not going to accomplish anything (with it). The idea is to be good."
France's Francois Hollande made the trip less than three weeks after Islamist gunmen killed 17 people in attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly newspaper and a kosher supermarket in Paris.
Four French Jews were among the dead, the latest victims of a recent spate of armed attacks on Jews in Europe.
Speaking earlier in the day at the Paris Shoah memorial to French Jews who died at Auschwitz and elsewhere during World War Two, Mr Hollande addressed France's 550,000-strong Jewish community.
"You, French people of the Jewish faith, your place is here, in your home. France is your country," he said.
US President Barack Obama, in a statement, said the Paris attacks were a "painful reminder of our obligation to condemn and combat rising anti-Semitism in all its forms, including the denial or trivialisation of the Holocaust".
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Gallery: 70th Anniversary Of The Liberation Of Auschwitz Camp
A general view of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim. The Germans built the Auschwitz camp in 1940 as a place of incarceration for the Poles
From 1942, it became the largest site of extermination of the Jews from Europe
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World leaders have joined around 300 Holocaust survivors at an event to mark 70 years since Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp.
The gathering in southern Poland marks perhaps the last major anniversary that survivors of the camp will be able to attend in such numbers - the youngest are now in their 70s.
Around 1.5 million people, mainly European Jews, were gassed, shot, hanged and burned at the camp in southern Poland during World War II, before the Red Army entered its gates in winter 1945.
It has become probably the most poignant symbol of a Holocaust that claimed six million Jewish lives across Europe.
The presidents of Poland, Germany, France were among hundreds attending the commemoration in a giant tent erected over the brickwork entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, part of the complex that is now a museum.
1/19
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Gallery: Holocaust Survivors Mark Auschwitz Liberation
About 300 Holocaust survivors gathered to mark 70 years since Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski (C) lays a wreath at the 'Wall of Death' in the camp
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A survivor touches the 'Wall of Death'
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Hollywood director Steven Spielberg (2R) at Auschwitz
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Spielberg attends a ceremony unveiling the Pillars of Remembrance at the memorial site
The railway tracks that bore Jews in train wagons from all across Europe to their deaths were lit up gold, the countryside around covered in deep snow.
One 88-year-old Auschwitz survivor - who sang a memorial prayer during the commemoration - said the Holocaust was "almost impossible for a human mind to comprehend", adding that he "prays to God that we as human beings are able to learn something from it".
Another, Rose Schindler, explained how only 11 of her loved ones survived the Holocaust, out of more than 300 relatives.
1/28
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Gallery: Portraits Of Auschwitz Survivors
Auschwitz death camp survivor Jacek Nadolny, 77. Jacek was seven during the Warsaw Uprising, when he was sent with his family to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train
Jacek holds up a wartime photo of his family. In January 1945 the family were moved to a labour camp in Berlin
Once the 85-year-old arrived at Auschwitz, she was chosen for slave labour and was given no chance to say goodbye to her parents and four siblings.
"I have no graves for my mother, sisters, my brother and my father. So this somehow is a way to say goodbye," she added.
Holocaust survivor Eizbieta Soczunska said: "In our minds we are still here, even if we are not here in person, and we want to underline that the children of Auschwitz are standing here today."
David Wisnia said: "I gave up anger long time ago because you are not going to accomplish anything (with it). The idea is to be good."
France's Francois Hollande made the trip less than three weeks after Islamist gunmen killed 17 people in attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly newspaper and a kosher supermarket in Paris.
Four French Jews were among the dead, the latest victims of a recent spate of armed attacks on Jews in Europe.
Speaking earlier in the day at the Paris Shoah memorial to French Jews who died at Auschwitz and elsewhere during World War Two, Mr Hollande addressed France's 550,000-strong Jewish community.
"You, French people of the Jewish faith, your place is here, in your home. France is your country," he said.
US President Barack Obama, in a statement, said the Paris attacks were a "painful reminder of our obligation to condemn and combat rising anti-Semitism in all its forms, including the denial or trivialisation of the Holocaust".
1/19
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Gallery: 70th Anniversary Of The Liberation Of Auschwitz Camp
A general view of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim. The Germans built the Auschwitz camp in 1940 as a place of incarceration for the Poles
From 1942, it became the largest site of extermination of the Jews from Europe
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