World leaders in Israel to recall horrors of Auschwitz

The ceiling at the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem. [AFP]

Israel hosts dozens of world leaders Thursday to mark 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the World War II death camp where the Nazis killed more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews.

The presidents of Russia, France and Germany, US Vice President Mike Pence and Britain's Prince Charles will address the sombre event at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre in Jerusalem.