World War II Nazi camp survivors revisit the site they were tortured | Photos

World War II Holocaust survivors gathered at Auschwitz on Monday to honour lost lives. Leaders including King Charles, Ukraine President and others attended.

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On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, Holocaust survivors gathered to commemorate their escape during World War II (Sergei Gapon/AFP)

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Polish historian and Holocaust survivor Marian Turski delivered a speech in front of the main gate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, the so-called Death Gate, during the event, addressing survivors, their families and world leaders. (Sergei Gapon/AFP)

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is also Jewish, also attended the memorial and placed a votive candle in front of the train car, the symbol of the event, to pay tribute to the victims. (Ludovic Marin/POOL/AFP)

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French President Emmanuel Macron is seen here walking through a gate with the lettering in German "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Will Set You Free), at the extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau set up by the Red Army in southern Poland in 1940. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)

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Holocaust survivor Marian Turski sat in the front row and interacted with people during the event that marks the 1945 liberation of those who were trapped in the Auschwitz concentration camp  (Agencja Wyborcza.pl/Grzegorz Celejewski/via REUTERS )

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French President Emmanuel Macron together with French-Israeli jurist Arno Klarsfeld and his father, French activist and Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld visited a gallery of photographs of the permanent exhibition in the French block of the Auschwitz concentration camp site  (Ludovic Marin/AFP)

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The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York held a luncheon with 200 Holocaust survivors for International Holocaust Remembrance Day  (Angela Weiss/AFP)

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A French holocaust survivor along with France's Prime Minister Francois Bayrou and others took part in the Rekindling the Flame ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in honour of International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP)

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French holocaust survivor and President of the Auschwitz Deportees' Union Arlette Testyler reacted emotionally as she participated in the Rekindling the Flame ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP)

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Britain's Kate, Princess of Wales and Prince William attended a ceremony in London to honour Holocaust survivors and interacted with them during the memorial event. (Arthur Edwards/ Pool via AP)