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Looking at old photographs, Eli Rubenstein can spot the ways in which the historic Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp has fallen victim to the passage of time.

Mr. Rubenstein, who leads educational tours of the site every year, has watched over 25 years as more and more derelict structures have been made unavailable to the public for safety reasons.

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The rows of brick barracks — which once housed hundreds of prisoners crammed in small bunk beds — are now shuttered, flanked by wooden beams to keep them from falling over.

Ruins of gas chambers and crematoria are becoming less and less visible in the background of Mr. Rubenstein’s annual photos from trips to the concentration camp in Poland, where he escorts over 300 Toronto teens for the March of the Living.

This spring, only three of the 45 brick barracks at the Birkenau site are open to visitors. It is in these hastily made structures where Mr. Rubenstein has seen Holocaust survivors deliver speeches and read letters from their late parents.