The oldest known former prisoner of the Auschwitz death camp has died in Poland at the age of 108.

An Israeli newspaper today published previously unseen excerpts of post-Second World War letters written by Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi doctor known as “the Angel of Death”.

President Mary McAleese was at the centre of a sectarian row tonight after claiming Protestant children in the North were taught to hate Catholics in the same way Nazis despised Jews.

World leaders and death camp survivors mourned victims of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, gathering today at the spot where Nazi doctors once sent new arrivals to the gas chambers.

Leaders from 30 countries gathered today to remember the victims of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops.

Members of the European Parliament stood for a minute of silence this morning to pay tribute to the victims of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp.

President Mary McAleese is due to attend a commemoration in Poland today to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.