Commemorations are being held Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops.

The dwindling numbers offer a stark representation of the declining population of survivors who are still able to tell their stories.

Monday, the world will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a Nazi extermination camp in occupied Poland. At least a million people — mostly Jews — were murdered there as the camp became a symbol of the Holocaust.

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Some of the few remaining survivors of Auschwitz will gather at the site of the Nazi death camp on Monday as the world marks the 80th anniversary of its liberation

The Canadian Prime Minister will meet with Holocaust survivors, hear their stories, remember those senselessly killed, and vow to continuously oppose antisemitism, hatred, and bigotry.

A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps as a young boy will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since the liberation of one of the Nazi’s most notorious concentration camps

When Teresa Regula arrived at Auschwitz as a 16-year-old, the first real pain she experienced was of her ears burning. "They shaved us down to bare skin, and it was a scorching hot day, August 4... That was the first authentic pain I felt,