Marian Turski, a 94-year-old survivor of Auschwitz, was marking the 76th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet troops virtually, aware that he might never return as the coronavirus pandemic drags on.
Survivors and museum officials said they fear the pandemic could end the era where Auschwitz's former prisoners can tell their own stories to visitors on site.
Most Auschwitz survivors are in their 80s and 90s. "Even if there was no pandemic, there would be fewer survivors at every anniversary," Mr Turski told Reuters in a Zoom interview from his Warsaw home. "People at my age who are already vulnerable to many other illnesses are also in the first line of fire for this virus." The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial preserves the