A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since liberation of the notorious Nazi camp.

Furst, now 92, is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors able to share first-person accounts of the horrors they endured, as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis' most notorious death camp. Furst is returning to Auschwitz for the annual occasion, his fourth trip to the camp.

The World War II extermination of Europe's Jews by Nazi Germany began after the invasion of Poland in 1939 and increased in scale with the creation of death camps.

Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror of the Holocaust to global attention.

When the Nazi death camp Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago on Monday, it became clear to the world that the Nazis not only succeeded in murdering most of the European Jewish population, they also intended to erase all traces of their presence, heritage, and legacy. They failed.

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AFP photographer Eric Schwab recorded the horrors of the Holocaust -- the crematoria ... A few days earlier, the SS leader Heinrich Himmler had given the order to liquidate the camp. The braziers were still smoking, and the bodies of prisoners executed ...

The Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was liberated 80 years ago, is an enduring symbol of the Holocaust. Part of German dictator Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution" plan for the genocide of European Jews, the camp operated near the occupied southern Polish town of Oswiecim between June 1940 and January 1945.

Fürst, now 92, is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors able to share ... 1943 – one day after Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the cessation of the use of the gas chambers ...

Fürst, now 92, is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors able to share ... 1944 — one day after Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the cessation of the use of the gas chambers ...

Tova Friedman, 86, is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors. Is this horrific time slipping from our memory?

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