Today marks 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honour the memory of the millions of innocent lives lost.
By the time the camp was liberated on 27 January 1945 by Red Army soldiers, the Nazis had murdered approximately 1.1 million people in Auschwitz. These people were mostly Jews, but also Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and people of other nationalities. There were only 7,000 prisoners left at the camp by the time of its liberation.