German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday sharply criticized Elon Musk's backing of the right-wing parties in the European Union, calling it "really disgusting" and said it was hindering democracy in the bloc.

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

World leaders and a dwindling group of survivors joined in a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp by the Red Army.

Polish President Andrzej Duda remembered the victims of the Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, as commemorations got under way on Monday to mark 80 years since the death camp was liberated towards the end of World War II.

Some of the last living survivors spoke of worrying signs that safeguards of “never again” are falling away while antisemitism rises.

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

Auschwitz survivors pay tribute to those who died at the camp on the 80th anniversary of its liberation:::: Oswiecim, PolandThe anniversary at the site of the camp on Monday, which Nazi Germany set up in occupied Poland during World War Two,

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,

Auschwitz survivors will be joined by world leaders on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp by Soviet troops, in what will likely be one of the last such gatherings of those who experienced its horrors.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu missed the ceremony celebrating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz as he deals with legal woes at home and the threat of arrest abroad.