EUROPEAN leaders remembered the Holocaust yesterday, 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.

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.

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder gave up his seat in parliament today, completing his exit from day-to-day politics after seven years as German leader.

Germany’s newly-elected parliament was to convene for its first meeting today, one month after voters failed to give either centre-left or centre-right alliances a majority.