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Remembering the horrors of Auschwitz
On Holocaust Memorial day, DAVID ROSENBERG looks back on his recent visit to the most notorious of the nazi death camps and reflects on the collision of the past and an increasingly racist present
The trainline into Auschwitz
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On January 27 1945, the Red Army liberated around 7,000 emaciated prisoners at Auschwitz, the largest of six mass-killing centres the nazis established on Polish soil.
As the Red Army approached, the nazis attempted to destroy evidence of their crimes, then fled, together with 60,000 starving inmates, who they force-marched, in icy temperatures, towards other camps. 15,000 died en route.
Holocaust Memorial Day was first commemorated in Britain in 2001. Its organisers chose to mark it on the the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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