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.

Contrary to the provisions of the capitulation act signed by the Uprising’s leaders, Nazi sappers then methodically set ... the horrors of war expressed their shock. Visiting Warsaw shortly after Germany had fallen, U.S. General Dwight D.

In Nazi Germany, Hertha Reis, a 36-year-old Jewish woman, performed forced labor for a private company in Berlin during World War II. In 1941, she was evicted by a judge from the two sublet rooms where she lived with her son and mother – she was unprotected as a tenant because of an anti-Jewish law.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday visited the site of Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz ... Duda and Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw, the Polish capital. “Nothing could prepare ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) -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.

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.

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.

Hall, who moved to Miami in 1952, is passionate about sharing the harrowing stories of his youth. He recalls, with great detail, a childhood marked by fleeing from Nazi soldiers, hiding in closets and narrowly escaping death, all in an effort to educate younger generations on the dangers of unchecked hate.

Glauben devoted his life after liberation to education, ultimately leading to the establishment of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum.

Mother Matylda Getter, superior of the Warsaw province of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary, founded in the mid-19th century, is seen on an undated photo. Mother Matylda saved hundreds of Jewish children from extermination by the Nazis. (OSV News photo/courtesy Institute of National Remembrance)