Watch: Remembering 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz

Survivors pass the main gate of the Auschwitz death camp. Credit: Rolf Vennenbernd/DPA/Press Association Images

More than 100 Auschwitz survivors from at least 17 countries were expected to attend the main ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in southern Poland.

Today marks 70 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp - people across the world are attending events to remember the Holocaust.

This live event has now finished. You can re-watch the main ceremony at Auschwitz here:

The youngest survivors, who were just teenagers when the camp was liberated in 1945, are now in their eighties.