The United Nations Secretary General and his wife together with IAC representatives and Auschwitz survivors in Zurich on 27 January 2006: (from left) Henri Goldberg (Brussels), Maria and Adam König (Berlin), Raphael Esrail (Paris), Nane and Kofi Annan, Kurt Julius Goldstein (Berlin), Marian Turski and Kazimierz Albin (Warsaw).

27 January 2008:
63st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Third International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

For ever let this place be a cry of despair and a warning to humanities, where the Nazis murdered about one and a half million men, women and children, mainly Jews from many countries of Europe.

Text on the monument which was erected in the Birkenau Extermination Camp in 1967 on the initiative of the International Auschwitz Committee