Preparations For The 70th Anniversary Of The Liberation Of Auschwitz-Birkenau

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 01: A photograph from the collection of Auschwitz concentration camp survivor Alexander Riseman (3rd-L) taken on a train, two days before the end of WWII is reproduced on December 1, 2014 in London, United Kingdom. Alexander and his family were sent to Aushwitz from his home in Poland as a child and eventually liberated by the Russian forces. Ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the infamous concentration camp are due to take place on January 27, 2015. Auschwitz was a network of concentration camps built and operated in occupied Poland by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Auschwitz I and nearby Auschwitz II-Birkenau was the extermination camp where an estimated 1.1 million people, mostly Jews from across Europe, were killed in gas chambers or from systematic starvation, forced labour, disease and medical experiments. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)