On this day, 80 years ago, some 7,000 prisoners who had been left to starve in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camps were liberated by allied soldiers.
Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said the essence of commemorations was to acknowledge the past but they "must also examine the present and look to the future".
'Hateful rhetoric' reverberating
Underlying the rise of hateful rhetoric, with rising antisemitism on the streets and online, the UN rights chief said that "discrimination and dehumanisation are winning out over solidarity and compassion; diversity is viewed as a threat rather than something to be treasured; and many leaders are undermining and weakening the rule of law".
Reminding us that everyone has a "duty to stand against intolerance", Mr. Türk shared his fear the world is "sleepwalking into a grim future where human rights and dignity are denied, stripped away or forgotten".
Listen back to the story of Eva Lavi, the youngest survivor to be saved from the Nazis by the German industrialist Oskar Schindler:
