(Rudi Oppenheimer, left, a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen Nazi Concentration Camp shakes hands with Frederick Smith who served in the 4th County of London Yeomanry regiment of the British army, one of the British troops that liberated the Bergen-Belsen camp sixty years ago today, as they lit candles to commemorate the event at the Hyde Park Holocaust Memorial in central London)

Holocaust survivors are joining Jewish and military leaders in London for a solemn ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Britain's Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, and army chief of staff General Mike Jackson addressed the ceremony at the Holocaust Memorial in the Hyde Park.

An official memorial ceremony will later be held when officials from the state of Lower Saxony attend the ceremony and talked with a group of young people from nine countries.

Some 70,000 people, mostly Jewish, died at the Nazi camp in northern Germany, which was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945.

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