European leaders remember the Holocaust

European leaders remembered the Holocaust today, 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 Ahmadinejad’s statement that Israel should be wiped off the map and his description of the Holocaust – the murder of six million Jews by the forces of German dictator Adolf Hitler – as a “myth.”