European leaders remembered the Holocaust today, the 61st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, with commemorations shadowed by concern over anti-Israeli remarks by Iran’s president.

European leaders remembered the Holocaust today, the 61st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, with commemorations shadowed by concern over anti-Israeli remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Germany’s parliament today remembered the victims of the Nazis, and the parliament president said the Iranian leader’s recent dismissal of the Holocaust demonstrates “how much not only we Germans” need to keep its memory alive.