Yesterday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, on the margins of a commemorative event to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp in Oświęcim, Poland.

Polish President Andrzej Duda remembered the victims of the Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, as commemorations got under way on Monday to mark 80 years since the death camp was liberated towards the end of World War II.

Holocaust survivors and world leaders have begun to gather in Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

Monday's ceremony is widely being treated as the last major observance that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend.

Polish President Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda place lit candles at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, during a ceremony marking the 80th

Holocaust survivors and world leaders attended ceremonies in Poland on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.