World marks 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

Auschwitz was the largest of the extermination camps and has become a symbol of Nazi Germany's genocide of six million European Jews, one million of whom died at the site between 1940 and 1945, along with more than 100,000 non-Jews.

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France's President Emmanuel Macron (L) talks to filmmaker Eric Toledano (2nd L), French Holocaust survivor Esther Senot (2nd R) and Leon Placek (R), a survivor of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, as he takes part in a ceremony at the Memorial de la Shoah, the Holocaust museum in Paris on January 27, 2025, as the world marks today the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with some few remaining survivors set to attend ceremonues at the site of the notorious Nazi death camp. (AFP)