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.

Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting choice of residence, given the most famous feature of the town is its proximity to the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz – where at least 1.

noting it marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis warned of the “scourge of antisemitism” in his Angelus prayer on Sunday ...

Auschwitz survivors warned of the dangers of rising antisemitism, as world leaders gathered to mark 80 years since the Nazi German death camp was liberated.

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.

King Charles will join world leaders at the commemoration event in Poland where lights will be laid in memory of those murdered.

Rabbi Neal Katz from Congregation Beth El in Tyler stopped by KETK on Tuesday to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp complex. Auschwitz was a series of concentration and extermination camps run by Nazi Germany in then-occupied Poland.

A solemn ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Nazi death camp's liberation was attended by global leaders including King Charles and Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong.

In Poland for a Holocaust remembrance service, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus took aim at those he says are politicising recent attacks on the Jewish community.

King Charles marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with a speech in Poland warning of growing antisemitism.

Emma Reynolds MP has taken part in Holocaust Memorial Day by signing the Holocaust Educational Trust's Book of Commitment.