Auschwitz is of global relevance.

My husband died in Auschwitz.

Approximately 1.5 million people died in Auschwitz.

In Auschwitz they kill 20,000 a day.

All in all, this is far better than Auschwitz.

She showed great courage during our investigation of Auschwitz

My grandmother was on a train to Auschwitz, the death camp.

And so when she came out of Auschwitz, she made a vow.

I learned this from a woman who survived Auschwitz, one of the rare survivors.

The historic and moral responsibility for Auschwitz has left an indelible mark on us.

We are still left with a God who can do the tsunami and allow Auschwitz.

That is the lesson that the memory of Auschwitz hands down from generation to generation.

Today we are commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp.

Auschwitz was a complex consisting of a concentration, extermination and forced labour camp and 39 subcamps.

A Danish research centre on these matters has been established and 27 January has been designated Auschwitz Day .

She went to Auschwitz when she was 15 years old, and her brother was eight, and the parents were lost.

Auschwitz was the most horrific expression of a system blinded by racial insanity which brought untold suffering upon the people.

The occupants changed the name of the city of Oświęcim to Auschwitz, which became the name of the camp as well.

Auschwitz will forever be engraved in the history of humanity as a symbol of utter contempt for humanity and of genocide.

My mother was a Czechoslovak Jew who was deported to Auschwitz by the same Nazi regime that once occupied my ambassadorial home.

British forces liberated Bergen Belsen and Neuengamme, while Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz in Poland and the Sachsenhausen and Ravensburg camps in Germany.

Those two statements were from the Ambassadors of Poland and Germany, who spoke on the occasion of the liberation of Auschwitz camp.

The 60th anniversary has been marked by events and commemorations throughout the year the most moving being the international ceremony at Auschwitz.

Though it was only one death camp among many, Auschwitz has become for the world a symbol of terror, genocide and the Holocaust.

Let me say that whatever the new threats to humanity, we must learn the lesson of Auschwitz and be brave enough to act.

The majority of the Jewish men, women and children deported to Auschwitz were sent to death in the Birkenau gas chambers immediately after arrival.

During the ceremonies to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in southern Poland, the former Polish Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski reminded us, on behalf of the survivors, how Polish resistance had alerted the free world to the situation in Auschwitz but that no country in the world reacted adequately to the gravity of the situation.

And she told me this, she said, We were in the train going to Auschwitz, and I looked down and saw my brother's shoes were missing.

An example of such a programme is the annual March of the Living, in which Jewish and Polish youth participate, organized by the Auschwitz Birkenau Museum.

The names of the camps Auschwitz Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno on the Ner, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Dachau will forever bring to our mind the darkest side of human nature.

I am the son of a soldier who fought in World War II, whose lot it was to see battle, be wounded and experience the horrors of Auschwitz.

A few months ago, I participated in the March of the Living at Auschwitz. Many Jews with European roots who now live in America or Israel were in attendance.

There are also young people among them those who should transmit the message to future generations about what happened in the concentration camp, gas chambers and crematoria in Auschwitz Birkenau.

Sixty years ago, the horror struck Allies put an end to the extermination camps, those places of death whose names remain forever engraved in our memories Belzec, Sobibor, Majdanek, Treblinka, Auschwitz.

Our challenge for the future will be to preserve the memory of the millions killed in Auschwitz and elsewhere by an inhuman regime and to make sure that it will never happen again.

Samuel Pisar, an Auschwitz survivor, said, and I'll quote him, The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man, when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

She told me this. She said, I walked out of Auschwitz into life and I made a vow. And the vow was, I will never say anything that couldn't stand as the last thing I ever say.

So what he did was to teach us Jewish Holocaust history, and so huddled around books with photographs of people in Auschwitz, I learned the melancholic history of my people through the melancholic history of another people.

The designation of 27 January, the day of liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, as an annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust is of special significance to all of us.

That goal can be implemented through educational programmes, such as those planned at the International Centre of Education About Auschwitz and the Holocaust and the Institute of Peace and Reconciliation, which will study contemporary acts of genocide.

Images like this, from the Auschwitz concentration camp, have been seared into our consciousness during the twentieth century and have given us a new understanding of who we are, where we've come from and the times we live in.

We remember the enormous suffering of those who perished in the death camps at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau and many other horrific sites, where, in the name of a perverse and inhuman ideology, millions of human beings were deliberately and cruelly exterminated.

But Germany also appears to be increasingly uneasy about having to continue supporting Israel even when its policies are clearly reproachable. Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, can the bilateral relationship withstand the rising tide of anti Israel sentiment in Europe?

Today in Oświęcim we hear the voice of political leaders as well as those who survived Auschwitz and other camps in Europe occupied by the Nazis let us never forget, let future generations never forget about the genocide that occurred 60 years ago .

And they shelved the project. And it sat there for 10 years, and then one day Abe Spiegel from Los Angeles, who had lost his three year old son at Auschwitz, came, saw the model, wrote the check and it got built 10 years later.