Holocaust survivors and international leaders are honouring victims of the Nazis at the former Auschwitz death camp, amid calls to fight resurgent anti-Semitism.
The presidents of Israel and Poland – Reuven Rivlin and Andrzej Duda – laid wreaths together, 75 years after Soviet troops liberated the camp.
About 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Mr Rivlin warned of “voices which spread hate” and threaten democracy. “Our duty is to fight anti-Semitism, racism and fascist nostalgia – those sick evils,” he said. He and President Duda laid wreaths at the Death Wall, where the Nazis shot thousands of prisoners.
The vast Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex, in Nazi-occupied southern Poland, was the regime’s most notorious killing centre.