Some 10,000 participants from across the world have begun taking part in the annual March of the Living, commemorating the Nazi massacres at the most notorious death camp of the Holocaust.
The march's three-kilometer route begins from the gates of the former Nazi death camp to the crematoria in the adjacent Birkenau camp, where the bodies of millions of Jews, gypsies, political prisoners and others were burned after being gassed or otherwise murdered.
But the largest number of Auschwitz's roughly 1.1 million victims by far were Jews.
Initiated in 1988, the March of the Living is held annually on Yom HaShoah, Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day.