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		</div><p>Dozens of Auschwitz survivors have laid flowers at the infamous execution wall in the former Nazi death camp today, paying tribute to the victims of Adolf Hitler&#8217;s brutal regime exactly 72 years after the camp&#8217;s liberation.</p>
<p>Elderly survivors also paid homage to those killed by wearing striped scarves reminiscent of the garb prisoners once wore there.</p>
<p>They walked slowly beneath the notorious gate bearing the words &#8220;Arbeit Macht Frei&#8221; (&#8216;Work Will Set You Free&#8217;) and made their way as a group to the execution wall, where they lit candles and prayed.</p>
<p>Janina Malec, a Polish survivor whose parents were killed at the execution wall, told reporters that &#8220;as long as I live I will come here&#8221;, describing her yearly visit as a pilgrimage.</p>
<p>In Germany, foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said his nation remains committed to commemorating the genocide, honouring the memory of the victims and taking responsibility for the crimes.</p>
<p>January 27, the anniversary of the day that the Soviet army liberated the camp in German-occupied Poland in 1945, is recognized as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.</p>
<p>Commemorative events are being held across Europe and Israel.</p>
<p>Mr Steinmeier said Auschwitz stands for all the death camps and the entire Nazi &#8220;persecution and murder machinery&#8221; which remains part of Germany&#8217;s history.</p>
<p>He said that while Germany cannot change or undo what happened, the country has a continued obligation to commemorate the genocide, honour the memory of the victims and take responsibility for the crimes.</p>
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<p>Noting the political instability in the world today, Mr Steinmeier said that &#8220;history should be a lesson, warning and incentive all at the same time&#8221;.</p>
<p>He added: <i>&#8220;There can and should be no end to remembrance.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Mr Steinmeier&#8217;s statement came hours before he was due to hand over the post of foreign minister to the current economy minister, Sigmar Gabriel.</p>
<p>The Nazis murdered about 1.1 million people in Auschwitz during the Second World War &#8211; mostly Jews from across Europe, but also Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and others.</p>
<p>Poland&#8217;s prime minister Beata Szydlo, who is from the Polish town where the Auschwitz memorial and museum is located, recalled the &#8220;destruction of humanity&#8221; and the &#8220;ocean of lost lives and hopes&#8221; in Oswiecim.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;It&#8217;s an open wound that may close sometimes but it shall never be fully healed and it must not be forgotten,&#8221;</i> she said.</p>
<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used the day of remembrance to warn against a rise in extremist ideology in the modern world: <i>&#8220;Tragically, and contrary to our resolve, anti-Semitism continues to thrive.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are also seeing a deeply troubling rise in extremism, xenophobia, racism and anti-Muslim hatred. Irrationality and intolerance are back.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Mr Guterres vowed to <i>&#8220;be in the front line of the battle against anti-Semitism and all other forms of hatred&#8221;.</i></p>
<p>In Croatia, the Jewish community boycotted official commemorations, saying the country&#8217;s conservative government is not doing enough to curb pro-Nazi sentiments there.</p>
<p>Community leader Ognjen Kraus, the coordinator of the Jewish communities in Croatia, said the decision was made after authorities failed to remove a plaque bearing a Second World War Croatian pro-Nazi salute from the town of Jasenovac &#8211; the site of a wartime death camp where tens of thousands of Jews, Serbs and Roma perished.</p>
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