Second gentleman Emhoff visits Auschwitz, part of a push against antisemitism

U.S. second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, lays a wreath honoring Holocaust victims at the former Auschwitz site on Friday in Oswiecim, Poland. (Omar Marques/Getty Images)

This International Holocaust Remembrance Day, government officials from various countries gathered at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to remember victims and honor survivors.

Among them, for the first time, was the first Jewish spouse of a U.S. president or vice president.