At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal ...

Monday’s ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is more than just the moment to remember some 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust.

Altogether the Germans murdered 6 million Jews, or two-thirds of all of Europe’s Jews, in the Holocaust at Auschwitz and other camps, in ghettoes and in mass executions close to people’s homes.

Soviet troops first liberated the Majdanek camp near Lublin in July 1944, and would go on to liberate Auschwitz, Stutthof and others ... before the shooting execution at the Memorial and Museum ...