World remembers the horrors of Auschwitz

World leaders and death camp survivors mourned victims of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, gathering today at the spot where Nazi doctors once sent new arrivals to the gas chambers.

Candles flickered in the Polish winter gloom atop the rail track leading into the vast, snow-covered camp at Birkenau, and the ceremony began with the ominous rumble of an arriving train.