About 90 per cent of the 1.1 million people who perished at Auschwitz were Jews. They arrived at the gates in cattle trucks and were either sent directly to gas chambers or forced to do tough manual labour. Photo: AP Photo/Markus Schreiber
About 90 per cent of the 1.1 million people who perished at Auschwitz were Jews. They arrived at the gates in cattle trucks and were either sent directly to gas chambers or forced to do tough manual labour. Photo: AP Photo/Markus Schreiber