Auschwitz

“Nearly 75 years ago, Allied troops liberated Auschwitz and saw with their own eyes the Nazi regime’s evil and barbaric persecution of Jews and other minorities,” said Grace Meng (D-N.Y.). “Since then, the United States has resolved to teach future generations about the Holocaust, and why anti-Semitism and bigotry must be fought whenever and wherever these acts of hate occur.”

“Our delegation was deeply moved by our visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau. We came to commemorate 75 years since its liberation and to reaffirm our commitment to ensuring that the horrors of the Holocaust will never be repeated,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Seven decades later, nearly all of them—the skeletal prisoners on one side of the barbed wire and their liberators on the other—are gone. The world remembers the date thanks to the United Nations, which designated it as International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2005.

Gathering of heads of state in Jerusalem to mark 75 years since liberation of Auschwitz to be “largest diplomatic event in Israel’s history,” according to Israel’s Foreign Ministry • Yad Vashem chair: Resurgence of worldwide anti-Semitism makes event more important than ever.

While noting that anti-Semitic acts perpetrated in Ukraine is in decline, Israeli Ambassador Joel Leon stressed that the same cannot be said about overall anti-Semitic sentiment and rhetoric in the country.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will also be there, according to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin’s office.

“We’re committed to help the 80,000 or so survivors of the Holocaust who live in the United States achieve a measure of justice … when it comes to the material losses suffered during the Holocaust,” said Cherrie Daniels, the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues.

Russian veterans and survivors of infamous Nazi concentration camp will attend a historic event at U.N. headquarters in New York • Danon: “This is the hour for cooperation” between Israel and Russia.

The museum also said that 900,000 users follow its account on Twitter, and more than 300,000 use the museum’s profile on Facebook with 80,000 on Instagram.

“I will be clear: We have decided that I as the Polish president will not participate in the event,” said Andrzej Duda, adding that not allowing him to publicly honor Polish victims of the Holocaust was equivalent to a “distortion of the historical truth.”

Other world leaders set to attend a ceremony at Yad Vashem marking 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz include Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Piero Terracina was 15 when he and his family went into hiding in 1943 after escaping the roundup of Jews in Rome by German troops.