Politicians were asked not to speak at this year's event, as it could be the last time survivors gather on 27 January, the date when the Soviets liberated the Nazi death camp in 1945. View on euronews

Auschwitz survivors have warned of the rising antisemitism and hatred in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation.

Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazis' largest death camp, witnessed unimaginable horrors, where 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered. Survivors gathered on International Holocaust Remembrance Day,