Auschwitz liberation 70th anniversary: Survivors sit for beautiful portraits

As many as 1.5 million people are believed to have died in Auschwitz alone

On 27 January 1945, 200,000 prisoners were freed from the Auschwitz Nazi death camp by the Soviet Red Army. It is believed that around 1.5 million people were murdered at the facility in Nazi-controlled Poland, from during it opened in 1940. To mark the 70th anniversary of their release, now elderly survivors have agreed to sit for portraits by Reuters photographers, and share a small fraction of their harrowing stories.

Jacek Nadolny holds up a wartime photo of his family.
Jacek Nadolny, 77, who was registered with camp number 192685, was seven during the Warsaw Uprising when he was sent with his family to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train. In January 1945 the family was moved to a labour camp in Berlin.

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