Poland, Israel Condemn Resurgent Anti-Semitism at Auschwitz Commemoration

Poland's President Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda, Holocaust survivor Marian Turski, King Philippe of Belgium, King Felipe of Spain walk with candles to light them at the Monument to the Victims at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau, during ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, in Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 27, 2020. Aleksandra Szmigiel/Reuters

OSWIECIM, Poland—The presidents of Israel and Poland called for greater efforts on Jan. 27 to combat anti-Semitism as the world marked 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp amid concerns over a resurgence of anti-Jewish prejudice.

More than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, perished in the camp’s gas chambers or from starvation, cold, and disease.