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Now 91, Doniecka still remem­bers the Ger­man phrase “schneller, schneller, pol­nis­che Sch­weine”, or “faster, faster, Pol­ish pigs”, she said dur­ing an inter­view in her Warsaw flat. Today she will be among some 50 sur­viv­ors who will return to Aus­chwitz for the 80th anniversary of its lib­er­a­tion by Soviet troops at a spe­cial cere­mony with heads of state, includ­ing Bri­tain’s King Charles III. They will pay homage to the estim­ated 1.1mn vic­tims who died at the camp, the epi­centre of the Holo­caust built by the Nazis near the town of Oświęcim in occu­pied Poland. Most vic­tims were Jew­ish, but many Pol­ish, Roma and Rus­sian pris­on­ers of war also died there.

Donald Trump insisted he was serious in his determination to take over Greenland in a fiery telephone call with Denmark’s prime minister, according to senior European officials. The US president spoke to Mette Frederiksen, the Danish premier, for 45 minutes last week. The White House has not commented on the call but Frederiksen said she had emphasised that the vast Arctic island — an autonomous part of the kingdom of Denmark — was not for sale, while noting America’s “big interest” in it.