WATCH: Event commemorating 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

27 January 2020, 4:37 pm

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Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp are gathered for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of its liberation, returning to the place where they lost entire families and warning about the ominous growth of anti-Semitism and hatred in the world.

In all, some 200 survivors of the camp are expected, many of them elderly Jews and non-Jews who have traveled from Israel, the United States, Australia, Peru, Russia, Slovenia and elsewhere.

Many lost parents and grandparents in Auschwitz or other Nazi death camps, but were being joined by children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren.

Watch a livestream of the event here:

— With AP