Poland has promised Netanyahu safe passage to an Auschwitz memorial service. Former and current EU officials are speaking out.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu missed the ceremony celebrating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz as he deals with legal matters at home and the threat of arrest abroad. Netanyahu’s ability to attend the Auschwitz event Monday was complicated due to an outstanding warrant for his arrest issued by the International Criminal Court,

Earlier this month, the Polish government pledged not to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he attended the Auschwitz ceremony on January 27. DW looks back at the heated debate in Poland triggered by the decision.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said: "I confirm, whether it is the prime minister ... “Poland, as a state party to the ICC, has a legal and moral duty to cooperate with the Court in bringing perpetrators of serious international crimes to justice.”

No speeches were being made by politicians at the ceremony, with the focus on the voices of the few remaining survivors of the camp. Former inmates laid flowers at the camp's Death Wall in the morning,

But despite rumors that Netanyahu might visit the Auschwitz concentration camp on the 80th anniversary of its liberation, Poland’s left-liberal Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his government took ...

It has issued 32 unsealed arrest warrants. Those suspects range from Netanyahu and Putin to Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and Gamlet Guchmazov, accused of torture in the breakaway region of South Ossetia in Georgia.

More than 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz and historians say that most of them, about one million, were Jewish but the victims also included Poles, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war. #Eur

Marco Rubio issued a new memo to his employees, a copy of which was obtained by NatSec Daily, that outlined his Trumpian vision for the State Department.

A ceremony Monday marking 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp will be attended by heads of state from around the world, but will focus on the voices of survivors some of whom may not live to see another commemoration .