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) gate is recognized the world over.

With the world marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet troops on 27 January here is its history, based on information from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum.

Dozens of world leaders, including Britain’s king and the president of Ukraine, joined a dwindling group of Nazi death camp survivors on Monday in southern Poland to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz,

WARSAW/KRAKOW, Poland - When Ms Teresa Regula ... sent to the Nazi death camp set up in occupied Poland as part of Adolf Hitler’s “Final Solution” to annihilate European Jews.

WARSAW, Poland (AP ... gay people and others targeted for elimination in Adolf Hitler's racial ideology. The anniversary has taken on added poignancy due to the advanced age of the survivors ...

WARSAW/KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters ... people sent to the Nazi death camp set up in occupied Poland as part of Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution" to annihilate European Jews. Most Auschwitz inmates ...

Auschwitz Survivors Recall Suffering 80 Years After Camp's Liberation By Barbara Erling and Kuba Stezycki WARSAW/KRAKOW ... in occupied Poland as part of Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution" to ...

But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead of submitting meekly to the jackboots. Among them were the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.

KCRA Documentary screens at University of Arkansas The home is the former residence of the commander of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Rudolph Höss. The house recently featured heavily in the movie "Zone of Interest,

A far-right Polish member of the European Parliament with a history of antisemitic statements disrupted a moment of silence for the victims of the Holocaust in order to decry “the Jewish genocide in Gaza.”

The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the Holocaust is eroding.

In all, the Nazi regime murdered 6 million Jews from all over Europe, annihilating two-thirds of Europe’s Jews and one-third of all Jews worldwide. In 2005, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.