Auschwitz survivors have warned of the rising antisemitism and hatred in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation.
The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being ... Polish President Andrzej Duda, whose nation lost 6 million citizens during the war, placed a candle at the Death ...
World leaders rubbed shoulders with 56 survivors of Hitler's death camp as they marked 80 years since its liberation.
Auschwitz survivors and Poland's President Andrzej Duda paid tribute on Jan. 27, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp.
Polish President Andrzej Duda remembered the victims of the Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, as commemorations got under way on Monday to mark 80 years since the death camp was liberated towards the end of World War II.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, on the margins of a commemorative event to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp in Oświęcim, Poland.
Elderly camp survivors, some wearing striped scarves that recall their prison uniforms, walked to the the Death Wall, where prisoners were executed. Across Europe, officials were pausing to remember.
Auschwitz survivors warned of the dangers of rising antisemitism on Monday, as they marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp by Soviet troops in one of the last such gatherings of those who experienced its horrors.
The anniversary has taken on added poignancy due to the advanced age of the survivors, and an awareness that they will soon be gone.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu missed the ceremony celebrating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz as he deals with legal woes at home and the threat of arrest abroad.
A ceremony has taken place in Bath to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and 80 years since the liberation of the largest Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Bath and North East Somerset Council organised the event at the Guildhall alongside the Bath Interfaith Group.