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More than 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz and historians say that most of them, about one million, were Jewish but the victims also included Poles, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war.
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00:00Preparations are underway at Auschwitz to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp.
00:09The commemoration ceremony will take place on the 27th of January and will be attended by Holocaust survivors, international guests and Polish authorities.
00:18Organizers say there will be no speeches by politicians and only survivors of the death camp will speak.
00:26We hope that on the 27th of January the whole world will come together to listen to the voices of the survivors of Auschwitz.
00:33The commemorations take place in Oświęcim, a town that was under German occupation during World War II where the Nazis operated the most notorious of their death camps.
00:43More than 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz.
00:48At least 3 million of Poland's 3.2 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis.
00:54In total nearly 6 million European Jews were killed during the Holocaust.

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