Among monarchs and presidents, focus of Auschwitz anniversary is on 50 survivors
Former inmates of Nazi concentration camp in Poland will speak at ceremony marking 80 years since its liberation
Kings and queens, presidents, prime ministers and dignitaries from 54 countries will assemble at Auschwitz on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation, but the world’s focus will be firmly on its few remaining survivors.
About 50 former inmates are expected to attend the ceremony at the complex in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered more than a million people, most of them Jews, but also Poles, Roma and Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war and gay people.
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