00:00Preparations are underway at Auschwitz to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp.
00:09The commemoration ceremony will take place on the 27th of January and will be attended by Holocaust survivors, international guests and Polish authorities.
00:18Organizers say there will be no speeches by politicians and only survivors of the death camp will speak.
00:26We hope that on the 27th of January the whole world will come together to listen to the voices of the survivors of Auschwitz.
00:33The commemorations take place in Oświęcim, a town that was under German occupation during World War II where the Nazis operated the most notorious of their death camps.
00:43More than 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz.
00:48At least 3 million of Poland's 3.2 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis.
00:54In total nearly 6 million European Jews were killed during the Holocaust.
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