Holocaust memorial day: Auschwitz survivors lead commemorations

Holocaust survivors celebrate 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland.

Marian Turski, 98, Janina Iwanska, 94, and Tova Friedman, 86, are all survivors and shared their painful memories of Auschwitz at a ceremony Monday in front of world leaders.

People also went to the “Wall of Death” and left candles to pay their respects outside Building 11 at Auschwitz, where thousands of prisoners were executed by SS officers.

About 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered at the Auschwitz complex, making it the site of the largest mass execution of human beings ever recorded.

Video journalists: Gabriella Boccaccio and Jack Burgess