WARSAW, Poland Holocaust survivors, politicians, religious
leaders and others are marking International Holocaust
Remembrance Day with solemn prayers and the now oft-repeated
warnings to never let such horrors happen again. Events Sunday
took place at sites including Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former
death camp where Hitler’s Germany killed at least 1.1 million
people, mostly Jews, in southern Poland. Sunday is the 68th
anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet troops in
1945. In Warsaw, prayers were also held at a monument to the
fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. And in Rome,
Pope Benedict XVI warned that ‘’the memory of this immense
tragedy, which above all struck so harshly the Jewish people,
must represent for everyone a constant warning so that the
horrors of the past are not repeated.”