Holocaust survivors and world leaders are preparing to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Red Army.

Goran Rosenberg’s parents survived the Nazi’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps and made a new life in Sweden but, as he told Tony Clayton-Lea, they never fully escaped it— neither should we.

President Mary McAleese has cancelled plans to visit the loyalist Shankill Road in Belfast this week following her comments about Protestant sectarianism at the recent Auschwitz commemoration in Poland.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese has apologised for remarks which offended Northern Protestants during a radio interview on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.