Auschwitz: How death camp became centre of Nazi Holocaust - BBC News

It is 80 years since Soviet Union troops liberated Auschwitz - now marked as Holocaust Memorial Day.

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It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Some of the last survivors will be joined by world leaders on Monday, to commemorate the 1.1 million people murdered there.

The remaining survivors are now mostly in their 90s and this might be the last year any of them can attend.

In just over four-and-a-half years, Nazi Germany systematically murdered at least 1.1 million people at Auschwitz, built in the south of occupied Poland near the town of Oswiecim.

Auschwitz was at the centre of the Nazi campaign to eradicate Europe's Jewish population, and almost one million of those who died there were Jews.

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