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.

WARSAW, Poland — Polish President Andrzej Duda remembered the victims of the Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, as commemorations got underway on Monday to mark 80 years since the death camp was liberated towards the end of World War II.

Elderly camp survivors, some wearing striped scarves that recall their prison uniforms, walked to the the Death Wall, where prisoners were executed. Across Europe, officials were pausing to remember.

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.

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along with Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, French President Emmanuel Macron, Britain’s King Charles III and other royalty. Ukrainians, like Russians, made up the Red Army forces that ...

along with Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, French President Emmanuel Macron, Britain’s King Charles III and other royalty. Ukrainians, like Russians, made up the Red Army forces that ...

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.

Auschwitz survivors warned of the dangers of rising antisemitism yesterday, 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.