The world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Across Europe, the victims were remembered and honoured in various ways.
In Austria and Slovakia, hundreds of survivors were offered their first doses of a vaccine against the coronavirus in a gesture both symbolic and truly lifesaving given the threat of the virus to older adults.
In Israel, some 900 Holocaust survivors died from COVID-19 out of the 5300 who were infected last year, the country s Central Bureau of Statistics reported on Tuesday.
Pope Francis warned from the Vatican that distorted ideologies can end up destroying a people and humanity.
Meanwhile, Luxembourg signed a deal agreeing to pay reparations and to restitute dormant bank accounts, insurance policies and looted art to Holocaust survivors.