EVENTS will be staged in Britain and worldwide today to mark Holocaust Memorial Day – on the 80th anniversary of when, in 1945, the Red Army liberated the Nazis’ Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex in Poland.

The liberation of Auschwitz on January 27 was chosen as Holocaust Memorial Day for commemorations of acts of genocide, which also include those which took place in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

Many events will also focus on today’s growth of fascist, far-right and neonazi parties and groups internationally, some gaining support in mainstream politics and elections.