Eighty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, genocide, the persecution of millions of people because of their origin, war and even the possible use of nuclear weapons are once again considered “normal.

The main observances take place at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered over a million people

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

Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today. Sometimes the only sounds are the soft footsteps of visitors, people who come from all over the world to mourn and to learn, and the voices of their guides speaking in hushed tones into microphones trying to explain the ungraspable.

The dwindling numbers offer a stark representation of the declining population of survivors who are still able to tell their stories.

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Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today. It can feel that time has stood still at the place where Nazi German forces killed 1.1 million people, most of them Jews. There are the barracks which housed prisoners,

About 50 survivors of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau will return to the site on Monday to remember the day it was finally liberated on 27 January 1945. They will be joined by heads of state including King Charles and other European royalty,

A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since liberation of the notorious Nazi camp.

January 27, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Over one million