At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal belongings of people killed there. The “Arbeit macht frei” (work will set you free ...

Polish President Andrzej Duda remembered the victims of the Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, as commemorations got under way on Monday to mark 80 years since the death camp was liberated ...

King Charles to visit Auschwitz on 80th anniversary of Nazi camp liberation - Charles will travel to Poland to commemorate milestone with foreign monarchs, presidents, prime ministers and Holocaust ...

The main observances take place at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered over a million people, most of them Jews, but also Poles, Roma and Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war ...

Credit: AP American and British forces, meanwhile, liberated camps to the west, including Buchenwald, Dachau, Mauthausen ... Today the site is a museum and memorial managed by the Polish state ...

Eva Clarke, 79, was born at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria ... Speaking to the PA news agency before Holocaust Memorial Day on Monday, she said the pair managed to survive in the camp ...

Eva Clarke BEM, who was born in Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria, on April 29 1945, said having the Queen as patron is the Trust's "biggest accolade", while Ms Tribich said her presence ...

The Queen delivered a moving speech today - as she attended a Holocaust Memorial reception in London ... Eva Clarke BEM, who was born in Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria, on April 29 ...

The state Department of Accounting and General Services (DAGS) has chosen Hanapepe Filipino Cemetery as the memorial site. Just over a century ago, Filipino workers across the territory’s sugar ...

He said: "With that attitude, I fear his address marking Holocaust Memorial Day will inevitably ring hollow for many Irish Jews". However, the Rabbi confirmed to RTÉ News he will be attending the ...

Prince William will lead the nation in commemorations for Holocaust Memorial Day ... travel for the first time to the Auschwitz-Birkenau site in Poland as part of a one day visit to the country.