Auschwitz Memorial Commemorates 80th Anniversary Of Concentration Camp Liberation

OSWIECIM, POLAND - JANUARY 27: Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks following a ceremony at the so-called "Death Wall" at the Auschwitz I former concentration camp site on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp on January 27, 2025 in Oswiecim, Poland. The Nazis built and operated the Auschwitz complex of concentration camps during World War II initially for slave labor and later for the mass extermination of Jews and other undesirables. Approximately 1.1 million people died at Auschwitz, most of them in the notorious gas chambers of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. The Soviet Army liberated the camp in 1945. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)