About 50 survivors are joining King Charles and world leaders for commemorations including a service and speeches.

In just over four-and-a-half years, Nazi Germany systematically murdered at least 1.1 million people at Auschwitz, built in the south of occupied Poland near the town of Oswiecim. Auschwitz was at the centre of the Nazi campaign to eradicate Europe's Jewish population, and almost one million of those who died there were Jews.

Tova Friedman, 86, is one of a dwindling number of survivors sharing their message on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025.

Image: Prisoners from Hungary arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp in spring 1945. Pic: AP/DPA Image: The railway leading to the concentration camp. Pic: AP "You don't think that you live in ...

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.

This chart shows the share of respondents unable to name a single Nazi concentration camp in a survey (in percent).

The family home next to Auschwitz – immortalized on screen in last year’s Oscar-winning film ‘The Zone of Interest’ - is opening its doors to the public for the first time. This coincides with an alarming international survey examining Holocaust knowledge and awareness.

On the 80th anniversary of its liberation, survivors of the Holocaust gathered at the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Of the more than six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, 1.1 million were killed at Auschwitz,

The Jewish Museum of Moscow commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz, attended by Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar and five ambassadors. A "March of Life" occurred in Kaliningrad,

Last milestone anniversary’ will see political leaders listening to survivors’ voices rather than making speeches

In Poland, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, together with world leaders and former prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp, took part in events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of its liberation.

An Auschwitz survivor who was just 13 when she arrived at the concentration camp says the recent rise in antisemitism is driven by "ignorance". Separated from her mother as she passed through the gates,