China News Agency, Beijing, January 28th. Comprehensive news: On the 27th local time, Poland held a ceremony to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp.

The United Nations also held commemorative activities on the 27th to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust.

  Auschwitz concentration camp is located in the south of Poland. It was built by Nazi Germany in 1940. It was the largest concentration camp set up by Nazi Germany in Poland during World War II.

On January 27, 1945, the Soviet Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp.

On November 1, 2005, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution to designate January 27 every year as the "International Holocaust Remembrance Day".

  According to French TV reports, Poland held a ceremony on the 27th to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp.

Some Auschwitz concentration camp survivors and diplomatic envoys from various countries in Poland attended the commemorative ceremony.

Polish President Duda said the memory and truth about the Holocaust must continue and serve as a warning to every future generation.

  According to the United Nations website, at the commemorative event held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on the 27th, United Nations Secretary-General Guterres warned that the current racism and "neo-Nazism" are on the rise, and there are Holocaust denial, "revisionism" wave.

He called on people not to forget this period of history, keep the lessons in mind, and refuse to forget and be indifferent.

  The statement issued at the commemoration also mentioned Unesco's partnership with social media as a first step in combating "anti-Semitic" and Holocaust denial misinformation online.

  According to the data, in 1940, Nazi Germany established the Auschwitz concentration camp in southern Poland, originally to imprison Poles.

After Auschwitz's second camp, Birkenau, was completed, it became the main site of the mass murder of Jews, and millions of Jews were killed.

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