Preparations For The 70th Anniversary Of The Liberation Of Auschwitz-Birkenau

OSWIECIM, POLAND - NOVEMBER 14: Trees are reflected in a pond where the ashes of thousands of victims were scattered' at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination camp on November 14, 2014 in Oswiecim, Poland. Ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet soldiers are due to take place on January 27, 2015. 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)