Auschwitz's last survivors urge a troubled Europe not to forget

A child places a candle during a commemoration ceremony for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz death camp, at the Jewish Cemetery in former Nazi concentration camp Terezin in Terezin January 27, 2015. REUTERS/David W Cerny

OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - Auschwitz's last survivors urged the world not to forget the horror of the Holocaust 70 years after the Nazi death camp was liberated in the final throes of World War Two, an anniversary that finds Europe again confronted by intolerance.

European Jews warn of a growing under-current of anti-Semitism, fuelled by anger at Israeli policy in the Middle East and social tensions over immigration, inequality and increasing economic hardship under austerity policies that have contributed to a rise of far-right political movements in Europe.