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Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labor camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben; and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' final solution to the Jewish question. 
Hundreds of survivors returned to the Holocaust’s most infamous concentration camp, Auschwitz, to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation for what’s expected to be the last time. 
World leaders, including the presidents of Germany and France, joined about 300 survivors at a commemorative event at the Polish site. French President Francois Hollande’s presence at the event comes in the wake of terror attacks in Paris, including an attack at a Jewish supermarket. Russian President Vladimir Putin did not attend the commemoration, though the Soviet army was responsible for liberating the camp in 1945. 
			 			 			 The 2015 aerogramme commemorates 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, and the 10th annual International Day of Commemoration. The design features a brilliant red rose superimposed over barbed wire with the camp's entrance signage, "Arbeit Macht Friei", (Work Makes Freedom) and a tree in the background. A lighted candle serves as the €2,30 postal indicia.

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