For the 7,000 prisoners remaining—more than 60,000 had been forced to undertake a death march in the weeks before Allied troops arrived—liberation came as a bitter relief, overshadowed by the harrowing murder of 1.

Victims of the Holocaust will be remembered at the service at Truro Cathedral Candles will be lit by survivors of the Holocaust and their families at a special ceremony at Truro Cathedral to mark Holocaust Memorial Day,

The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former death camp. This ceremony is widely considered the last