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 survivors, President Andrzej Duda and First Lady Agata Kornhauser–Duda and world leaders gathered in Poland on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz–Birkenau death camp, where more than 1.1 million people perished during World War II.

Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of the rising antisemitism and hatred they are witnessing in the modern world as they gathered

KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) -- "God did not create Auschwitz, God created man," said Cardinal Grzegorz Rys of Lodz after the Jan. 27 commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazis' biggest death camp -- Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim,

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Poland for a visit. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have left the south of Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk region and are holding positions on the outskirts.

A memorial service to mark 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops was held on Monday (local time) at the site of the former death camp, a ceremony that was widely treated as the last major observance that any notable number of survivors would be able to attend,

At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal belongings of people killed there. The “Arbeit macht frei” (work will set you free) gate is recognized the world over.

The Nazis murdered an estimated 1.1 million people at the death camp in southern Poland before its liberation on January 27, 1945

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.

Monday's ceremony in Poland is regarded as the likely last major observance of Auschwitz's liberation that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend, due to their advanced ages.

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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