Commemorations were held across Europe to mark the annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27. The day was set by the United Nations in 2005 to honor the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism. /CFP

A live event including honor guards and wreath-laying was held at the Ghetto Heroes Monument in Warsaw, Poland. /CFP

People installed "stumbling stones" for the victims during the memorial in Turin, Italy. Each brass plaque represents a life taken in the holocaust. /CFP

Representatives of the Jewish community in Kiev, Ukraine, including Chief Rabbi of Kiev Jonathan Benjamin Markovitch (2R), planted trees at the Babi Yar memorial. /CFP

Commemorations also took place in Germany. Flowers and candles were seen at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. /CFP