71st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp

A man enters the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp through the gate with the phrase “Arbeit macht frei” (“work sets you free”) in Oranienburg, Germany. International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Jan. 27, 1945.

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Jan. 27, 2016 8:30 AM PT

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Jan. 27, 1945.

A group of visitors gather inside the Holocaust Memorial on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin.

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Soldiers hold a wreath at the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland.

(Czarek Sokolowski / Associated Press)

Holocaust survivors walk with others through the main gate of the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on the 71st anniversary of the death camp’s liberation by the Soviet Red Army in 1945.

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Visitors stand next to a ramp at the former Nazi German concentration camp KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau during a ceremony in Oswiecim, Poland.

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Former Nazi German concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Andrzej Grygiel / EPA)

Visitors look at photographs of the “March of the Living” exhibition, part of the ceremonies marking the 71st anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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Inmates of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp stand behind barbed wire in this photograph taken by the Soviets.

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Russian liberators march German uniformed prisoners past mass graves at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the 1945 liberation.

(Yad Vashem / Associated Press)