While the number of survivors in Israel dropped to 123,715 last year, a rising trend of Holocaust memorials in the Muslim world provide 'a small amount of light'

Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of the rising antisemitism and hatred they are witnessing in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty.

M onday, Jan. 27, marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Ten days prior to the opening of the gates, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews, was detained. He disappeared and his fate remains unknown.

The statement was issued as heads of state and government gathered Jan. 27 at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland to mark International Holocaust Memorial Day and remember the camp's estimated 1.1 million mostly Jewish, but also Polish, Roma, Soviet POWs and other nationalities’ and social group victims.

Auschwitz survivors warned of the dangers of rising antisemitism on Monday, as world leaders gathered to mark 80 years since the Nazi German death camp was liberated by the Soviet Army in 1945.

Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting choice of residence, given the most famous feature of the town is its proximity to the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz – where at least 1.

In all, the Nazi regime murdered 6 million Jews from all over Europe, annihilating two-thirds of Europe's Jews and one-third of all Jews worldwide. In 2005, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

M onday, Jan. 27, marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Ten days prior to the opening of the gates, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews, was detained. He disappeared and his fate remains unknown.

The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being observed at the site of the former death camp. The ceremony is widely being treated as the last major observance that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend.

Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg is hopeful there has been a turning point in the fight against antisemitism in Australia, but warned there is still more work to be done.