Some 6 million European Jews were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust — the mass murder of Jews, Gypsies and other groups before and during World War II. Soviet Army troops liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp on January 27, 1945, and the day has become known as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. An estimated 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were killed in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. 

A small reproduction of the Amsterdam annex where Anne Frank hid with her family opens to the public at the Center for Jewish History on January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Matthias Goering, a 59-year-old physiotherapist, and a descendant of Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler’s right-hand man, is wearing a Jewish skullcap, with a Star of David pendant round his neck. After being brought up to despise Jews, he has embraced their faith. And Goering keeps kosher dietary rules, celebrates shabbat and is learning Hebrew.

Actually Matthias isn’t a “descendant” of Hermann. “His great-grandfather and Hermann’s grandfather were........

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