Auschwitz liberation commemoration: Standing in silence, 80 years on, and the message ‘never again’ must hit home
On Monday, the 80th anniversary of the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz, world leaders including King Charles were due to gather with elderly survivors of the genocide for a solemn wreath-laying ceremony at the notorious Wall of Death. The condemned were led there, in the yard next to block 11, and SS men shot them.