Auschwitz survivors return to camp as they and world leaders mark 80th anniversary of its liberation – live

Holocaust survivors return for memorial ceremony on 80th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

In a very moving piece published over night, three Auschwitz survivors, two of whom were interned there as teenagers, tell our Berlin correspondent Kate Connolly their stories.

This is what Albrecht “Albi” Weinberg, 99, told Kate:

Not a day goes by when I don’t think about my family. There are now Stolpersteine in front of our former family house, which are the closest thing I have to a gravestone where I can feel close to them.

I’m taken back to Auschwitz every day when I look in the mirror while washing my face and I see my tattoo.

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