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

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 03: Auschwitz concentration camp survivor Josef Perl, aged 84, poses in his home on December 3, 2014 in London, United Kingdom. Josef Perl was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Gross-Rosen, Balkenhain, Hirschberg and Buchenwald concentration camps. He has spent twenty years of his life educating people of the horrors and the lessons to be learnt from the holocaust. 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)