Survivors remember the victims of the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz

About 20 survivors from various camps set up by Nazi Germany around Europe laid wreaths and flowers and lit candles at the Death Wall in Auschwitz.

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00:00 A few of the last remaining survivors of the Nazi death camps gathered at the site of the

00:06 Auschwitz-Birkenau camp on Saturday, the 79th anniversary of its liberation.

00:12 In a modest and moving ceremony, about 20 survivors from various camps set up by the

00:17 Nazis around Europe laid wreaths and flowers and lit candles at the death wall.

00:24 Later the group gathered for a ceremony by a women's barracks.

00:28 Almost 1.1 million people were killed there, most of them Jews, as well as Roma, Polish

00:34 and Soviet prisoners.

00:36 Soviet Red Army soldiers liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau in January 1945.

00:42 There they found about 7,000 prisoners, including children and those who were too weak to walk.

00:51 Nearly 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis.

00:58 (dramatic music)