On the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, 98-year-old survivor Marian Turski addresses the commemoration in Poland.

Eighty years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, the 89-year-old Ziegler said Monday the rising tide of "hatred" around the world makes her fear that history might be ready to repeat itself.

King Charles and Prince William are leading the royal family’s commemorations of the victims of the Holocaust on Holocaust Memorial Day.

World leaders are gathering with Auschwitz survivors to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp.

The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being observed at the site of the former death camp.

However, they are not the focus. The survivors are the focus. There are not many, given the passage of time. And they are not many because the lesson of the Holocaust is not about survival. It is about murder. Surviving was not normal. Death was the norm.

Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today. Sometimes the only sounds are the soft footsteps of visitors, people who come from all over the world to mourn and to learn, and the voices of their guides speaking in hushed tones into microphones trying to explain the ungraspable.

About 50 survivors are joining King Charles and world leaders for commemorations including a service and speeches.

The day is meant for people to remember the millions of Jewish people, and people from other backgrounds, who were killed by the Nazis during WWII.

A trip to Nazi concentration camps and the ruins of Jewish life after the Holocaust is not a typical fun family getaway. Yet it is one that Rabbi Abba and Chanie Perelmuter and their children recently took and it was painful and empowering.

Elderly former inmates, some wearing scarves in the blue-and-white stripes of their death camp uniforms, laid flowers at the site on Monday touching the camp's Wall of Death in silence.