Jan 27, 2021
Roses with a note saying "#weremember", are placed on the Holocaust Memorial on International Holocaust Remembrance Day today in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Jewish prayer for the souls of people murdered in the Holocaust echoed today over where the Warsaw ghetto stood during World War II as a world paused by the coronavirus pandemic observed the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Most International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations were being held online this year due to the virus, including the annual ceremony at the site of the former Auschwitz death camp, where Nazi German forces killed 1.1 million people in occupied Poland. The memorial site is closed to visitors because of the pandemic.