Holocaust ‘must be remembered with shame and horror’

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.

Several leaders used the occasion to reject Mr Ahmadinejad’s statement that Israel should be wiped off the map and his description of the Holocaust - the murder of 6 million Jews - as a “myth”.

At Auschwitz, Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz laid a wreath at the memorial to 1.5 million people who died at the Nazi-run camp. He was joined by the Israeli ambassador to Poland, camp survivors and representatives of the Jewish community.