There at Birkenau he'll take part in an interfaith service with Jewish religious leaders.
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.
"Over 1 million people were systematically murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau, " Karen Pollock, head of the Holocaust Educational Trust, told The Sunday Times.
The date is of course significant as it was on this day in 1945 that the Auschwitz Birkenau Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp was liberated.
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.
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.
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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