The Bundestag remembered the victims of National Socialism with a special ceremony on Wednesday, 31 January 2018. This marks the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945. Following an opening address by Bundestag President Dr Wolfgang Schäuble, Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch MBE gave the commemorative speech.