More than 200 survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp have returned there to mark 75 years since its liberation.
A delegation of survivors of the Auschwitz and their families arrive to lay wreaths at the camp's execution wall on Monday.. Poland's Duda boycotted that event over a disagreement with Russia over Poland's role in triggering World War II.
Many of the survivors lost parents and grandparents in Auschwitz or other Nazi death camps and some will be saying kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, some alongside their own children, grandchildren and even great grandchildren. She recalled being brought in from a ghetto in Czechoslovakia by cattle car, being stripped of her clothes, shaved and put in a gas chamber. By some miracle, the gas chamber that day did not work, and she went on to survive slave labor and a death march.
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