Auschwitz Survivors Warn of Rising Anti-Semitism at 80th Anniversary of Camp’s Liberation

Auschwitz Survivors Warn of Rising Anti-Semitism at 80th Anniversary of Camp’s Liberation
Holocaust survivors attend an event to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in Brzezinka, Poland, on Jan. 27, 2025. Kacper Pempel/Reuters
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OSWIECIM, Poland—Auschwitz survivors warned of the dangers of rising anti-Semitism on Monday, 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.

The ceremony at the site of the camp, which Nazi Germany set up in occupied Poland during World War II to murder European Jews on a huge scale, was attended by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Britain’s King Charles, French President Emmanuel Macron, Polish President Andrzej Duda, and many other leaders.