The world marks Holocaust Remembrance Day amid rising tension and hatred

Warsaw: Survivors have gathered at the former Auschwitz death camp to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day as political leaders warned that the Nazi genocide must continue to serve as a warning to the world.

In Warsaw, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson paid his respects in a solemn ceremony at a memorial to the Jews who died revolting against German forces in the doomed Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.

Tillerson trailed two uniformed Polish military officers and readjusted a wreath underneath the monument, a hulking structure located in what was once the Warsaw Ghetto.

The head of Warsaw’s Jewish community read a prayer and Tillerson made brief remarks about the importance of not forgetting the horrors of the Holocaust.

Read the article by Vanessa Gera and Matthew Lee in The Sydney Morning Herald.