Liverpool is hosting a ceremony to mark the day, anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Germany's state railway, which initially resisted pressure from Jewish groups and the German government to do so, has now agreed to put on a commemorative exhibition highlighting the role of the railways in the genocide against German Jewry.
There's a review by Omer Bartov here of The Unknown Black Book, a compilation of survivor testimony about the mass killing of Jews in Lithuania and Ukraine as the Germans invaded.
BBC4 tonight screens Antony Sher's adaptation of If This Is A Man, Primo Levi's memoir about his time at Auschwitz. Sher writes about his one-man play here.