Auschwitz anniversary: A people transformed

National and religious leaders came together this week to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. Auschwitz was one, probably the most infamous, of Nazi Germany’s death factories where millions of people, including 6m Jewish people, were murdered.

German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier, speaking at Israel’s national Holocaust Memorial said that he bowed his head in “deepest sorrow [for] the worst crime in the history of humanity”, committed by his countrymen.