Auschwitz-Birkenau, set up by the Germans in Nazi-occupied Poland, is largely intact and is now a museum.
It is on this date that the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated.
So declared Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as he spoke at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Wednesday, the 65th anniversary of its liberation.
Poland was the site of some of the most notorious Nazi German death camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka and Sobibor.
Preservation efforts in Poland are currently underway to ensure the protection of the decaying Auschwitz-Birkenau site and its victims' memories.
"Over 1 million people were systematically murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau, " Karen Pollock, head of the Holocaust Educational Trust, told The Sunday Times.
"My children used to ask me what that number on my arm was, " she said, referring to the identification number tattooed on Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners.
He was allegedly a camp guard in 1944, when about 344, 000 Jews from Hungary were murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers in occupied Poland.
Speakers scheduled for this event include Henri Borlant, a physician who survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, as well as Yehuda Bauer and Irina Bokova.
The replica was made in the workshops of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum.
Last February I led a historic visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp with more than 150 political and religious leaders, mostly from Arab and Muslim countries.
The crowd held a moment of silence, then marched to the city's old railway station, where the first trains departed for the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex.
Even those with the most vivid imagination would be unable to convince the visitors to Auschwitz-Birkenau that Soviet soldiers were no different from the SS butchers.
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By August 1943, 46, 091 Jews had been deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Mr. Venezia was one of the few survivors of the Sonderkommando, or special units, in charge of emptying the gas chambers and burning the corpses during the Holocaust at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Born into a poor family in Salonika, Greece, Shlomo Venezia was arrested at the age of 21, in March 1944, and deported with his family to Auschwitz-Birkenau where he lost his mother and two sisters.
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