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 …

This is how Auschwitz was described, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish prisoner of the camp, writer Tadeusz Borowski. Crowds of people walking, led, driven to mass death. We, in Poland, know well the truth about what was happening here since it was recounted to us by our compatriots who had camp numbers tattooed on their bodies by Germans.

Jan 27, 2025 · OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of the rising antisemitism and hatred they are witnessing in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation.

Jan 27, 2025 · Poland’s President Andrzej Duda was among dignitaries and Holocaust survivors who gathered at Auschwitz on January 27, to mark 80 years since the Nazi concentration camp’s liberation by Soviet...

Jan 16, 2025 · Polish President Andrzej Duda walks with Auschwitz survivor Edward Mosberg as they arrive to lay a wreath during the March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2022.

Jan 27, 2025 · "We are the guardians of memory," said Duda, after laying a wreath at the wall where thousands of prisoners were executed at Auschwitz 1, the concentration camp 3km (1.85 miles) from Birkenau.

Jan 27, 2025 · Polish President Andrzej Duda kneels in front of the Death Wall at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, during a ceremony in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

It will soon be 79 years since the gates of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz–Birkenau were opened. Some seven thousand people lived to see it liberated. But just as importantly, the bonds of silence surrounding this veritable hell on earth were broken.

Jan 27, 2025 · Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German death camp, during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the camp's liberation in Oswiecim, Poland, on...

Jan 26, 2025 · The day will begin with survivors and Polish President Andrzej Duda laying a wreath at "Death Wall" at the first Auschwitz camp, where thousands of Polish prisoners, Jews and Soviet prisoners of ...