Holocaust remembered at Auschwitz on memorial day
The Independent|January 28, 2023
Survivor Eva Umlauf with others at a ceremony in the former Nazi camp yesterday (AP)
ALASTAIR JAMIESON
Holocaust remembered at Auschwitz on memorial day

Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners commemorated the 78th anniversary yesterday of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, some expressing horror that war has again shattered peace in Europe.

The former camp, in Oswiecim in southern Poland, became a place of systematic murder of Jews, Poles, Soviet prisoners of

war, Roma and others targeted for elimination by Hitler during the Second World War.

In all, some 1.1 million people were killed at the vast complex before it was liberated by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945.

The ruined site stands as one of the world's most recognised symbols of evil and a site of pilgrimage for millions from around the world.

Yet it lies only 185 miles from Ukraine, where Russian aggression is creating unthinkable death and destruction - a conflict on the minds of many this year.

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