Auschwitz Survivors Pay Homage as World Remembers Holocaust

A survivor holds a poster at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, as he attends ceremonies marking the 74th anniversary of the liberation of the camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 27, 2019.AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski
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WARSAW, Poland—The world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27 amid a revival of hate-inspired violence and signs that younger generations know less and less about the genocide of Jews, Roma, and others during World War II.

In Poland, which was under Nazi German occupation during the war, a far-right activist who has been imprisoned for burning the effigy of a Jew gathered with other nationalists Sunday outside the former death camp of Auschwitz ahead of official ceremonies remembering the 1.1 million people murdered there.