Auschwitz march held ahead of Warsaw Ghetto 80th anniversary

Holocaust survivors and supporters participate in the annual March of the Living in Poland (Michal Dyjuk/AP/PA)

Thousands of people assembled on Tuesday at the site of Auschwitz for the March of the Living, a yearly Holocaust remembrance march that falls this year on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Participants in the event included Holocaust survivors who lived through Auschwitz or one of the other death camps where Nazi Germany sought to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe.