“God suffered a great deal in every single person who was here. God suffered a great deal in this place,” Cardinal Rys added.

Commemorations are being held Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops.

Candles and wreaths left by Auschwitz survivors stand at the so-called ‘Death Wall’ at the Auschwitz I site on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp on Jan. 27, 2025, in Oswiecim, Poland. (photo: BOB REIJNDERS / Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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.

WARSAW -- Auschwitz survivors and global leaders gathered at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in southern Poland to commemorate the 80th anniversary of its liberation.

Auschwitz survivors were being joined by world leaders on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp by Soviet troops, one of the last such gatherings of those who experienced its horrors.

When Teresa Regula arrived at Auschwitz as a 16-year-old, the first real pain she experienced was of her ears burning.

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.

Holocaust survivor Barbara Wojnarowska-Gautier was just three years old when she was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp and subjected to the disturbing experiments of Nazi doctor Dr Josef Mengele.

Holocaust survivors and guests sit at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of its liberation, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27. 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

An exclusive interview with Auschwitz survivor and award-winning photographer Ryszard Horowitz, on his extraordinary life and his perilous childhood as a Jewish boy in Nazi-occupied Kraków.

WARSAW, Poland (AP ... Auschwitz the labor and death camp The German authorities founded the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in the Polish town of Oswiecim after their invasion of ...