Former prisoners visit Buchenwald on anniversary of liberation, April 11, and remember horrific scenes at camp which was the first to be entered by US forces at the end of World War II.

Shlomo Perel convinced a German soldier he wasn't a Jew, got close enough to the Fhrer to take his picture, and found himself in a Hitler Youth school, wearing uniforms with a swastika - all to stay alive.

At Buchenwald ceremony, head of the EU parliament Martin Schulz says Europe must fight 'demons of racism, anti-Semitism, ultra-nationalism and intolerance.'

More than 80% of Jews in Israel believe that in a few years from now, the Nazi genocide of Jews during World War II will become a vague historical event, survey finds ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day.