BBC Holocaust Reporter
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The Holocaust led to millions of lives being cut brutally short because of a racist ideological mission to wipe out Europe's Jewish population and other groups deemed inferior or undesirable by the Nazis. Members of the Polish resistance and Roma community, as well as Soviet prisoners of war, also died at Auschwitz.
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In the audience were presidents, prime ministers and royalty, among them King Charles. Earlier, he spoke at the Jewish Community Centre in Krakow.
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Prisoners were starved and worked to death through slave labour. Disease from tuberculosis to dysentery were allowed to rage. Medical experiments were carried out on children. And the gas chambers, at one point, were killing 12,000 people a day. 94-year-old Mala Tribic came to today's event, a Polish-born British survivor who was liberated from another camp, Bergen-Belsen, by the British.
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Liberation for Auschwitz came when the Red Army approached from the east as the Nazis' plans for European expansion crumbled. About 7,000 prisoners remained. Tens of thousands of others had already been forcibly evacuated by the Nazis out of Auschwitz on brutal death marches.
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Now 80 years on, there is still a commitment by a dwindling number of survivors to keep their own memories alive and, as best they can, The stories of those who never lived to tell them.