Liberation of Auschwitz commemorated

29th January 2010

Around 150 Holocaust survivors returned to Auschwitz on January 27 to take part in commemorations to mark the day 65 years ago when troops of the Red Army liberated Nazi Germany’s most infamous concentration camp.


In weather eerily reminiscent of the freezing conditions that greeted liberation day the old men and women, many wearing striped hats or scarves to remind the world of the blue and white uniforms they had to wear, paid homage to the estimated 1.1 million who died at Auschwitz.

Speaking at the event Donald Tusk, the prime minister, spoke of a need for silence to contemplate what had happened.

“Maybe at this point silence is most appropriate for my generation,” he said. ...