The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated on January 27, 1945. 80 years later, it is our responsibility to remember. #WeRemember.
The virulent antisemitism that led to the Holocaust is still rampant around the globe today, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said against the backdrop of Monday’s solemn commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
King Charles marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with a speech in Poland warning of growing antisemitism.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has visited the site of the Nazi German extermination camp Auschwitz ahead of talks with Poland's leaders on security and tightening Britain's ties with the European Union.
The statement was issued as heads of state and government gathered Jan. 27 at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland to mark International Holocaust Memorial Day and remember the camp's estimated 1.1 million mostly Jewish, but also Polish, Roma, Soviet POWs and other nationalities’ and social group victims.
Today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, in Warsaw, Poland.
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.
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The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the Holocaust is eroding.
Chabad Shliach Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler sounded the shofar and Israel's former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau recited Kaddish at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp in Auschwitz.