Pole Bogdan Bartnikowski, 92, a concentration camp survivor who was born in Warsaw on January 24, 1932, holds his "Arbeitskarte" - labour card identity document issued by the Germans to forced foreign workers as he poses at his home in Zalesie Gorne, south of Warsaw, Poland on January 8, 2025. Bogdan Bartnikowski and his mother were deported to Auschwitz extermination camp on August 10, 1944 together with a group of civilians from Warsaw sent to the camp after the beginning of the Warsaw Uprising. He remained there until January 11, 1945. When faced with the approaching of Soviet troops, the Germans evacuated them to Berlin-Blankenburg forced labour camp. At the age of 13 he worked clearing the rubble of the city after the bombings. He was liberated in Berlin on April 22, 1945 by the Soviet army. After the war he joined the Polish army and served as a pilot in the air force and later worked as a journalist and writer. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)