By Barbara Erling and Kuba Stezycki OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) -Auschwitz survivors were being joined by world leaders on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp by Soviet troops,

“God suffered a great deal in every single person who was here. God suffered a great deal in this place,” Cardinal Rys added.

It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return to Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has purchased it. Now, in conjunction with the Auschwitz Museum and UNESCO, they have created "The Auschwitz Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalisation." The home is now open to the public for the first time.

Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today. Sometimes the only sounds are the soft footsteps of visitors, people who come from all over the world to mourn and to learn, and the voices of their guides speaking in hushed tones into microphones trying to explain the ungraspable.

Auschwitz survivors have warned of the rising antisemitism and hatred in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation.

The ceremony is widely regarded as the last major observance likely to see a significant number of survivors in attendance.

Friday and Saturday, the Los Angeles Ballet will present Melissa Barak’s Memoryhouse, about Jewish lives during the Holocaust

Education is essential in honoring Holocaust survivors, remembering victims and preventing history from repeating itself, speakers said at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration on Jan.

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West Norfolk schools have been learning about Judaism in light of Holocaust Memorial Day. Marsha and Todd Parker of Discovering Judaism spent the beginning of the week at Clenchwarton Primary School and West Lynn Primary School.