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.

The statement was issued as heads of state and government gathered Jan. 27 at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland to mark International Holocaust Memorial Day and remember the camp's estimated 1.1 million mostly Jewish, but also Polish, Roma, Soviet POWs and other nationalities’ and social group victims.

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.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has visited the site of the Nazi German extermination camp Auschwitz ahead of talks with Poland's leaders on security and tightening Britain's ties with the European Union.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday visited the site of Nazi German extermination camp Auschwitz, voicing his “sheer horror” at what he saw and vowing that he would fight the growing antisemitism which is causing fears to rise among Jews including in Britain.

Politicians were asked not to speak at this year's event, as it could be the last time survivors gather on 27 January, the date when the Soviets liberated the Nazi death camp in 1945. View on euronews

Church leaders across Europe marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp with calls to remember German Nazi-inflicted sufferings and to counter a new rise in antisemitism and extremism.

Meanwhile, the King warned of the "dangerous re-emergence of antisemitism" as he also met ... camp began earlier when Poland's President Andrzej Duda joined Auschwitz survivors laying wreaths ...

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He was also scheduled to meet with President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw, the Polish capital. “Nothing could prepare me for the sheer horror of what I have seen in this ...

Turski, 98, said: “Today and now we see a huge rise in antisemitism ... Polish President Andrzej Duda, whose nation lost 6 million citizens during the war, spoke poignantly about the importance ...