Survivors of Auschwitz deliver warning from history as memories die out

World leaders rubbed shoulders with 56 survivors of Hitler's death camp as they marked 80 years since its liberation.

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"We were stripped of all humanity," said Leon Weintraub, 99, the oldest of four who spoke beside the notorious Death Gate at the Birkenau extermination camp.

Marking 80 years since its liberation, world leaders and European royalty rubbed shoulders on Monday with 56 survivors of Hitler's genocide of European Jews.

"We were victims in a moral vacuum," said Tova Friedman, who described witnessing the horrors of Nazi persecution as a five-and-a-half-year-old girl clinging to her mother's hand.

She described watching from her hiding place at a labour camp "as all my little friends were rounded up and driven to their deaths, while the heartbreaking cries of their parents fell on deaf ears".

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