World leaders and Holocaust survivors mark 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz at an event at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem memorial centre
Historian and former Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld and French President Emmanuel Macron observe a moment of silence at Roglit memorial on January 23, 2020.
Israel has hailed the World Holocaust Forum the biggest international gathering in its history. Russian President Vladimir Putin and US Vice President Mike Pence are among the attendees.More than one million people, most of them Jews, were killed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Six million Jews died in the Holocaust.
"I hope and pray ... that the leaders of the world will stand united in the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and extremism, in defending democracy and democratic values," he said. Israeli organisers said only the four World War Two allies, and Germany, would address the gathering. "Above all, we are asking that the memory of the Holocaust, that terrible crime, the memory of its victims, is not exploited for political reasons. That would be vile," Poland's deputy foreign minister, Szymon Szynkowski vel Sek, said on Tuesday.
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