The world’s focus will be on the remaining survivors of Nazi Germany’s atrocities on Monday as world leaders and royalty join them for commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

The dwindling numbers offer a stark representation of the declining population of survivors who are still able to tell their stories.

Some of the few remaining survivors of Auschwitz will gather at the site of the Nazi death camp on Monday as the world marks the 80th anniversary of its liberation in the final months of World War II.

The early 20th century tyrannies concluded with Soviet gulags and Nazi camps for those who questioned authority. Genocide became a legalized and socially accepted political tool. People were surfeit with and directed by ideologically dictated hatred of the politically singled out other. The world succumbed to Auschwitz.

A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps as a young boy will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since the liberation of one of the Nazi’s most notorious concentration camps