Auschwitz revisited

Auschwitz, the largest death camp established by Germans during the second world war, has become a symbol of terror and genocide. More than one million men, women and children, mostly jews, were killed between 1940 and 1945 at the concentration camp set up by the Nazis in Poland during World War II. Picture shows a memorial stone at the Auschwitz II - Birkenau, which was liberated by the Soviet army on January 27, 1945. . The 60th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp is being commemorated this week. Getty Images