Our world in photos: March 25
Brooklyn Eagle Staff
March 25, 2025
POLAND — Grim setting acknowledging gruesome history: Holocaust survivors and guests sit at the Auschwitz-Birkenau, former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of its liberation, Jan. 27, 2025. Originally opened in 1940 in southern Poland after the Nazis invaded on Sept. 1, 1939, this was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps.
Auschwitz was originally a detention center that later expanded into not only a prison but also a site for barbaric and macabre medical experimentation on the prisoners.
BERLIN — Germany’s moving remembrance, year-round 24/7: A flower lays on a concrete slab on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, at the Holocaust Memorial in Germany, Jan. 27, 2025. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation at the hands of the Soviet army.
Another Holocaust commemoration within the Jewish community is Yom HaShoah (shoah refers to a wind). Observed annually on the Hebrew date of 27 Nisan, roughly a week after Passover, and coinciding with the date of the Warsaw Uprising, Yom HaShoah this year runs from sundown on April 23 to nightfall on April 24.
FRANCE — ‘Tats’ with a food theme — no wonder he rolls up his sleeves: Denmark’s chef Sebastian Holberg Svendsgaard speaks with his teammate as he prepares food during the final of the “Bocuse d’Or” (Golden Bocuse) contest, a sort of world cup of cuisine started in 1987 by Lyon chef Paul Bocuse, in Lyon, Jan. 27, 2025. Two years ago, in an upset victory, Denmark teamed with Sweden to win the Bocuse d’Or prize, which is considered the Olympics of culinary arts. This year, France won it back.
Father/son victory: This year, 28-year-old Paul Marcon led the French team that won the 2025 Bocuse d’Or. Three decades ago, in 1995, his father, Regis, won the competition.
POLAND — Much more than a wall of death: Museum security staff handle wreaths as survivors and relatives stand at the Death Wall during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Jan. 27, 2025. Just over two years after the end of World War II, the Auschwitz camp was re-opened as a museum on June 14, 1947. The museum preserves and displays on exhibit tens of thousands of artifacts, many with very personal qualities. They range from suitcases, garments, jewelry (such as signet rings) and even kitchen utensils.
Some of the artifacts belonged to the SS Garrison and the guards responsible for undertaking the mass extermination.
ATHENS — A goodbye filled with devotion, faith and tradition: A woman kisses the headpiece of late Albania’s Archbishop Anastasios during a religious ceremony inside the Athens Orthodox Cathedral in Greece, Jan. 26, 2025. Archbishop Anastasios, born in 1929 in Greece and died there on Jan. 25, was an ecumenical leader who helped revive the Orthodox Church in Albania.
Greece’s neighbor to the northwest, Albania, sits across the Adriatic Sea from the heel of the Italian peninsula. Although a secular state, as of 2023, Albania is Muslim-majority (51%), while Christians, including Orthodox branch adherents, comprise 16% of the population.
PARIS — Maître d — ‘Mademoiselle, I cannot seat you wearing a tent …’: A model wears a creation as part of the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2025 collection, which was presented on Jan. 27, 2025. Designer Christian Dior (1905-57) was the founder of one of the world’s most famous fashion houses.
Before his death, Dior expressed his desire that a young Yves Saint Laurent continue as his successor. Of course, Saint-Laurent went on to establish his own fashion (and fragrance) labels.
KANSAS CITY — When does the Travis album drop? Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift kiss after the AFC Championship NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, in Missouri.
The sweethearts may have a second game-victory kiss to share on Sunday, Feb. 9, when the Chiefs meet up with the Philadelphia Eagles at the Super Bowl, which will be played at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
TOKYO — ‘Before resigning, we promise to commit harakiri on live television … NOT’: Koichi Minato, president and CEO of Fuji Television Network, left, and Shuji Kano, Fuji Media Holdings COB, announce their resignation during a news conference at the Fuji Television headquarters, Jan. 27, 2025. The two resigned — effective immediately — as they took responsibility for a growing sex assault scandal linked to one of Japan’s top TV celebrities, Masahiro Nakai. He is the former leader of the once-wildly popular boy band SMAP, who is in the midst of a costly settlement with a woman whom he allegedly sexually assaulted.
Fuji allegedly had a role in organizing the dinner party where the alleged assault took place.
