Holocaust commemorations - Antisemitic behaviour continues

More than 40 world leaders are expected to attend the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation by the Soviet Union’s Red Army of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the most notorious of the Nazi’s death camps.

There will, in fact, be two ceremonies, one today at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem and the other at the Auschwitz site in southern Poland on Monday, January 27, the date of the liberation. Leaders at both sites, joined by elderly survivors, will pay tribute to the 6m Jews slaughtered in the Holocaust, more than 1m of them in Auschwitz alone.