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'Our Mission': Auschwitz Museum Staff Recount Their Everyday Jobs

'It's impossible to leave all the history behind and not take it home with you,' says guide Jacek Paluch (Credit: AFP)

Barbed wire lines the road to work for Pawel Sawicki, deputy spokesman of the Auschwitz museum at the site of the former Nazi death camp that was liberated 80 years ago this month.

More than one million people died at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp built by Nazi Germany when it occupied Poland in World War II -- most of them Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma and Soviet soldiers.

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