Yesterday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, on the margins of a commemorative event to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp in Oświęcim, Poland.
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 and world leaders have begun to gather in Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
Monday's ceremony is widely being treated as the last major observance that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend.
Polish President Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda place lit candles at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, during a ceremony marking the 80th
President Alar Karis will attend a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland and remembering the victims of the Holocaust.
Holocaust survivors and world leaders attended ceremonies in Poland on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
Around 50 survivors of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz gathered together for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp.
King Charles III will visit Poland. The British monarch will travel to Kraków on Sunday, and on Monday, he will take part in the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday stressed Germany's enduring responsibility for the Holocaust as leaders and survivors marked 80 years since Soviet troops liberated the Nazi-run death camp Auschwitz.
The last of its kindHugo Lowy, a Jewish-Romanian man, was among those who were “set free.” He was beaten to death in 1944 by SS men on the ramp after he refused to leave his tefillin and tallit behind.
In a poignant moment of remembrance, King Charles stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Holocaust survivors, vowing that the 'evils of the past' will never fade from our memories.