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| - Features Editors: Paris: Kate Millar +33 1 4041 4636 Hong Kong: Liz Thomas +852 2829 6211 Twitter: @AFPfeature We are today publishing the first part of a series devoted to survivors of the Nazi concentration camps, 75 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on January 27, 1945 and to mark the World Holocaust Forum on January 23 at Yad Vashem. For weeks, journalists in AFP's Jerusalem bureau interviewed 10 of the last survivors of Auschwitz, the former Nazi death camp that has come to symbolise the Holocaust. Despite their advanced years, as well as the difficulty, pain and fatigue of reliving their experiences, the survivors agreed to give their testimonies on camera and in front of the lense, in order to pass them on. AFP's archives and photo services have also selected images taken in 1945 by the AFP photographer who accompanied Allied forces as they advanced and who was himself searching for his mother who had been deported. His unflinching lense bore witness to the full horror of the Holocaust. AFP additionally has some rare images of Auschwitz in photo and video taken by a drone. We are offering the following items: + The last survivors: growing old with memories of Auschwitz + 75 years on, the faces of Auschwitz survivors + A photographer's search for his mother in Nazi concentration camps + How the Nazis carried out their 'Final Solution' + How the world discovered the Nazi death camps + 1945, the last year of World War II History-Holocaust-Nazis-Jews-Israel,SPECIAL REPORT JERUSALEM As he looks at pictures of his parents and sisters who perished in Auschwitz, Szmul Icek begins to tremble, tears clouding his eyes. It may have been 75 years ago, but for this survivor of the Holocaust the memories of life and death in the Nazi extermination camp remain painfully fresh. 2,000 words by Michael Blum and Guillaume Lavallee. Pictures by Menahem Kahana. Video by Ahikam Seri and Nir Kafri History-Holocaust-Nazis-Jews-Israel-portraits,PHOTOESSAY JERUSALEM Ahead of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, AFP has been speaking to some of the death camp's last survivors. Originally from Europe, they spent part of their childhood in the notorious extermination camp before moving after World War II to Israel. 1,700 words by Michael Blum and Guillaume Lavallee. Pictures by Menahem Kahana. Video by Ahikam Seri and Nir Kafri History-Holocaust-Nazis-Jews-photographer,PHOTOESSAY PARIS Piles of skeletal bodies, the doors to a crematorium, emaciated faces -- an AFP photographer documents the full horror of the Nazi extermination camps in the spring of 1945, as he searches for his deported mother. 450 words. File pictures by Eric Schwab History-Holocaust-Nazis-Jews-genocide,FACTS PARIS The World War II extermination of Jews by Nazi Germany began after the invasion of Poland in 1939 and increased in scale with the creation of death camps. 400 words History-Holocaust-Nazis-Jews-media,FACTS PARIS Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the first Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror of the Holocaust to world attention. 500 words History-Holocaust-Nazis-Jews-Year1945,CHRONO PARIS Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 with Nazi Germany surrendering in May and its leaders going on trial for war crimes in November. A recap of key events that year. 950 words. File pictures afp
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