PHOTO COLLECTION: Poland Auschwitz 80th Anniversary

This is a collection of photos chosen by AP photo editors.

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A visitor walks by the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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People visit a surviving gas chamber and crematorium at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 25. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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The remains of a gas chamber, crematorium, and brick stone chimneys of prisoners barracks are seen at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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View of a wall inside gas chamber one at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Visitors are seen through the remains of a gas chamber and crematorium at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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A man walks past the ”Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Sets You Free) gate at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Shoes that were taken from prisoners are displayed at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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A rose, left by a visitor is held on a chain link, next to the ruins of a gas chamber and crematorium at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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A visitor enters a gas chamber and crematorium at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Shoes that were taken from prisoners are displayed at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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A view of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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A visitor reflects in a window of a room with clothing representing the undressing of prisoners before the shooting execution at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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FILE – This June 1958 image shows buildings behind a defunct high voltage electric fence of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz I, Poland, which was liberated by the Russians, January 1945. (AP photo, File)
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FILE – A group of Jews, including a small boy, is escorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers on April 19, 1943. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE – A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January, 1945, shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) nazi concentration camp. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE – An aerial view of the Birkenau Extermination Camp at Oswiecim, Poland, August 25, 1944. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE – In this 1943 file photo, a group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter. (AP Photo, file)
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FILE – Part of the Auschwitz war crimes court inspects the former Nazi extermination center in Poland in Dec. 1964, where more than four million, mostly Jews, perished during World War II, from 1940 until 1945. (AP Photo, File)
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People visit the inside of the prisoner barracks at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 25. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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People visit the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Visitors look at the remains of a gas chamber and crematorium at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 25. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 25. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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A visitor walks past a gas chamber and crematorium, where someone has left a rose, at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Visitors walk along the old railroad tracks once used to transport Jews from across Europe to Auschwitz, at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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People walk outside the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, a day before the 80th anniversary of its liberation, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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A man visits the prisoner barracks at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 25. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Visitors look at the Gestapo office at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Visitors walk through the ”Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Sets You Free) gate at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 25. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Snow blankets railroad tracks once used to transport Jews from across Europe to Auschwitz, the Nazi German extermination and labor camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Flowers lie next to the old railroad tracks once used to transport Jews from across Europe to Auschwitz, at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 25. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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A woman takes a photo of the old railroad tracks once used to transport Jews from across Europe to Auschwitz, at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 25. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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People visit railroad tracks and a carriage used for prisoner transports in WWII, just outside the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 25. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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People visit railroad tracks and a carriage used for prisoner transports in WWII, just outside the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 25. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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A visitor stands at the gates of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Snow covers railroad tracks once used to transport Jews from across Europe to Auschwitz, the Nazi German extermination and labor camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, early Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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A wooden sign with the word STOP stands in front of what was an electric barbed wire fence inside the former Nazi German extermination and labor camp Auschwitz I, in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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