Views Of Auschwitz Ahead Of The 75th Anniversary Of Its Liberation

OSWIECIM, POLAND - DECEMBER 18: The sun rises over the early morning mist blanketing the barbed wire electrified fence and the Death Gate the Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp on December 18, 2019 in Oswiecim, Poland. Ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet soldiers are due to take place on January 27, 2020. 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)