Holocaust Remembrance Day

Visitors from around the world pass under the infamous Arbeit Macht Frei (“Work Sets You Free”) sign over the main gate at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz on Wednesday, just hours before solemn ceremonies to mark 65 years since the camp was liberated by the Red Army. Later Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will join Polish leaders in commemorative ceremonies at Birkenau, the larger of the two camps, in which about 1 million Jews were murdered.  (Czarek Sokolowski / Associated Press)

Former prisoners attend the main ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation by the Red Army of the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland on Wednesday.  (Grzegorz Momot / EPA)

Israeli soldiers visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial’s museum in Jerusalem on Wednesday, passing through the “Hall of Names” that shows 600 portraits, along with documentation, of 600 individuals who perished at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust of World War II. Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day in 1945 that the Auschwitz death camp in Poland was liberated.  (Jim Hollander / EPA)

Visitors view the display at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on International Holocaust Remembrance Day Wednesday. International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on Jan. 27, 1945.  (Dan Balilty / Associated Press)

An ultra-orthodox Jewish man pauses outside the “Hall of Names” in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial’s museum in Jerusalem. On the walls of the hall are binders containing documentation of over 3.5 million names of individual Jews who perished in the Holocaust of World War II.  (Jim Hollander / EPA)

Russia’s minister of education and science, Andrei Fursenko, visits the exhibition organized as a part of ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland on Wednesday. The exhibition was organized by Moscow’s Museum of the Great Patriotic War. It displays the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Red Army on Jan. 27, 1945.  (Andrzej Grygiel / EPA)

Former prisoner Jadwiga Bogucka at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on Wednesday. Ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp, where some 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were killed during the occupation of Poland in World War II.  (Leszek Symanski / EPA)

Russian Jews pray in memory of those who died during the Holocaust at a synagogue in Moscow on Wednesday on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.  (Natalia Kolesnikova AFP / Getty Images)

The former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau is seen Wednesday, hours before solemn ceremonies to mark the 65th anniversary of the notorious Nazi death camp’s liberation by the Red Army. Later, Auschwitz survivors, Soviet veterans and leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will join Polish leaders in commemorative ceremonies at Birkenau, the larger of the two camps, in which about 1 million Jews were killed.  (Janek Skarzynski AFP / Getty Images)