PARIS (AP) — France's President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to former French Resistance activist and author Geneviève Callerot, who has died aged 108.

French President Emmanuel Macron honours Geneviève Callerot, a WWII Resistance activist and author, who passed away at 108.

Callerot, who was among the last survivors of the groups that combatted the country’s World War II occupation by Nazi Germany ... a town in the Dordogne region of southwestern France where ...

PARIS - Frances President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to former French Resistance activist and author Genevieve Callerot who has died at age 1

The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the Holocaust is eroding.

World leaders and a dwindling group of survivors joined in a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp by the Red Army.

From 1943 through 1946, more than 3,400 prisoners (including 15 Nazi generals) were processed at Fort Hunt, according to Robert K. Sutton's 2022 book, "Nazis on the Potomac: The Top-Secret Intelligence Operation that Helped Win World War II.

It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return to Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Jews in Hungary and around the world are observing Holocaust Remembrance Day 80 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

In Varna, tourists strolling past the seaside city's Archaeological Museum might notice a monument of a shofar, a Jewish horn inscribed with thanks to Bulgarians, "for our salvation during the Holocaust," which concludes, "We remember!"

Monday’s ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is more than just the moment to remember some 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust.

A historian of the Holocaust and curator of the Auschwitz exhibition, now in Toronto, invites all who gather on Jan. 27 to also consider the date’s political origins.