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Nearly one hundred survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau joined today the site of the former Nazi death camp to mark the 65th anniversary of its liberation by the Soviet army.
For many of these former prisoners, all elderly, this is the last chance to honor the site some 1.1 million men, women and children gassed, shot or killed by hunger or cold.

Five years ago, when it marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation, the survivors who participated in the ceremonies were over two thousand.
Auschwitz, the Nazi camp, built in occupied Poland in 1940 and released on January 27, 1945 by the Soviet army, is a symbol of the genocide of Nazi Germany.
In 2005, the UN declared this day as International Day for the Victims of the Holocaust.

Opened in 1940, the Auschwitz camp was soon after connected to Birkenau, about three miles, and devoted mainly to the extermination of the Jews of Europe.

In addition to the million Jews who were killed there, the victims of Auschwitz also included 70,000 to 75,000 non-Jewish Poles, 21,000 Gypsies, 15,000 Soviet POWs and 10,000 to 15,000 other prisoners, including members of the resistance, according to data from the Museum Auschwitz - Birkenau.

On January 27, 1945, Red Army troops found the field that were advancing westward. Inside, remained around 7,000 survivors.