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.

World leaders will be in Poland Monday to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80thanniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Commemorations are being held Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops.

Eighty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, genocide, the persecution of millions of people because of their origin, war and even the possible use of nuclear weapons are once again considered “normal.

About 50 survivors of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau will return to the site on Monday to remember the day it was finally liberated on 27 January 1945. They will be joined by heads of state including King Charles and other European royalty,

On Monday she will be among some 50 survivors who will return to Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet troops at a special ceremony with heads of state including Britain’s King Charles III.