Fears Mount of Resurgent Anti-Semitism in Europe

Seventy-one years ago, Soviet troops entered the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi extermination camp near Krakow, Poland, liberating the remaining 7,000 prisoners, most of them sick and dying Jews. Days earlier, as the Red Army approached, the Nazis evacuated 60,000 other inmates, forcing them on a death march. Dozens of elderly Holocaust survivors lit candles at Auschwitz on Wednesday — the U.N.-designated International Remembrance Day — to commemorate the dead and to pay homage to...

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