Watch live: Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony at Auschwitz II-Birkenau Camp in Poland

Religious and state leaders and survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp gathered on Monday for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of the Soviet army's liberation of the camp.

Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was among those to lay a wreath at the Death Wall at the camp.

You can watch the event live in the video player above.