OŚWIĘCIM, Poland — The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial & Museum in Poland is preparing for the 80th anniversary of Soviet forces liberating the German Nazi camp in what many experts believe is the memorial's last major milestone with many survivors present.

In honor of the Jewish victims who died during the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. is hosting its International Remembrance Day Commemoration. Jan. 27, marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau,

It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return to Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former death camp, a ceremony that is widely being treated as the last major

Auschwitz survivors warned of the dangers of rising antisemitism on Monday, as they marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp by Soviet troops in one of the last such gatherings of those who experienced its horrors.

Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today. Sometimes the only sounds are the soft footsteps of visitors, people who come from all over the world to mourn and to learn, and the voices of their guides speaking in hushed tones into microphones trying to explain the ungraspable.