World leaders mark Auschwitz liberation

Leaders from 30 countries gathered today to remember the victims of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops.

Major Anatoly Shapiro, who commanded the unit that captured the camp on January 27, 1945, greeted leaders and survivors at a morning Holocaust forum in the Polish city of Krakow ahead of the main ceremony at the Auschwitz and Birkenau camps.