The President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, has accused the World War
II allies of failing to take enough measures to save Europe's
Jews, and urged the EU to act to root out modern-day anti-
Semitism. Mr Katsav was addressing a forum marking the 60th
anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at
Auschwitz in southern Poland. He described the Holocaust as not
only a tragedy for the Jewish people, but a failure of humanity
as a whole. Heads of state and government from many countries,
including the President, Mary McAleese, gathered at the former
camp to commemorate the more than one million people who were
murdered there. As well as Jews, the victims included many
Poles, Russians, Gypsies and homosexuals. Some of the last
remaining survivors of the death camp have also attended the
ceremonies. Earlier, a forum in Krakow, not far from Oswiecim
where the camp was constructed, saw documentaries of World War
II showing the liberation of several death camps by the Soviet
Red Army. Anatoly Chapiro, the Russian c