SURVIVORS MARK REMEMBRANCE DAY

warsaw, poland » Dozens of elderly Holocaust survivors lit candles at Auschwitz onWednesday, exactly 71 years after the Soviet army liberated the death camp that has become the most powerful symbol of the human suffering inflicted by Nazi Germany during WorldWar II.

The commemoration at the former death camp in southern Poland, an area under Nazi occupation during the war, is part of the U. N.- designated International Remembrance Day, marked by politicians, survivors and others in ceremonies and events across the world.

At Auschwitz some of the survivors wore sashes or scarves that recalled the striped pajama- style clothing that prisoners were forced to wear. They placed candles and wreaths at a wall where many prisoners were executed before gathering with the presidents of Poland and Croatia for official ceremonies. The Nazis killed more than 1 million people at Auschwitz, most of them Jews but also Roma, non- Jewish Poles and others. The Associated Press

Czarek Sokolowski, The Associated Press Holocaust survivors arrive to attend ceremoniesWednesday remembering the people killed by the Nazis at the former Auschwitz death camp in Oswiecim, Poland.