Visitors walk inside the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz camp (Picture: Reuters)Around 300 survivors are expected to attend the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp – the youngest in their 70s.
The returning internees fear a resurgent anti-Semitism due to a slow forgetting of the awful crimes of the Holocaust.
1.1 million Jews, Romani, Poles, Russians and other minorities were killed at the Nazi’s Auschwitz-Birkenau network of extermination and concentration camps in Poland.
The camp in its earliest form became operational in 1940, only to be liberated on January 27, 1945, by the Red Army’s 322nd …read more
Source: Metro
