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Auschwitz commemoration in photos

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Auschwitz commemoration in photos

Survivors of the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau attend a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz camp by Soviet troops and to remember the victims of the Holocaust in Auschwitz Birkenau on January 27 2010.
Photo: Peter Andrews

Auschwitz commemoration in photos

Yaakov Litzman, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara and Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, from left to right, attend a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz camp by Soviet troops and to remember the victims of the Holocaust in Auschwitz Birkenau on January 27 2010.
Photo: Peter Andrews

Auschwitz commemoration in photos

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk speaks during a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz camp by Soviet troops and to remember the victims of the Holocaust in Auschwitz Birkenau on January 27 2010.
Photo: Peter Andrews

Auschwitz commemoration in photos

Russia's Education and Science Minister Andrei Fursenko speaks during a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz camp by Soviet troops and to remember the victims of the Holocaust in Auschwitz Birkenau on January 27 2010.
Photo: Peter Andrews

Auschwitz commemoration in photos

Poland's President Lech Kaczynski speaks during a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz camp by Soviet troops and to remember the victims of the Holocaust in Auschwitz Birkenau on January 27 2010.
Photo: Peter Andrews

Auschwitz commemoration in photos

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz camp by Soviet troops and to remember the victims of the Holocaust in Auschwitz Birkenau on January 27 2010.
Photo: Peter Andrews

Auschwitz commemoration in photos

Religious leaders lead a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz camp by Soviet troops and to remember the victims of the Holocaust in Auschwitz Birkenau on January 27 2010.
Photo: Kacper Pempel

Auschwitz commemoration in photos

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu places a candle at a memorial during a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz camp by Soviet troops and in remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust in Auschwitz Birkenau on January 27 2010 .
Photo: Peter Andrews

Auschwitz commemoration in photos

A visitor prepares to lay candles on a monument at Auschwitz-Birkenau during a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz camp by Soviet troops and to remember the victims of the Holocaust in Auschwitz Birkenau on January 27 2010 .
Photo: Kacper Pempel

Auschwitz commemoration in photos

Visitors pause at a memorial after a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz camp by Soviet troops and to remember the victims of the Holocaust in Auschwitz Birkenau on January 27 2010
Photo: Peter Andrews

Auschwitz commemoration in photos

A rose rests against a memorial during a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz camp by Soviet troops and to remember the victims of the Holocaust in Auschwitz Birkenau on January 27 2010.
Photo: Peter Andrews

World leaders gathered on January 27 2010, along with 100 survivors, to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death-camp Auschwitz.

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Anonymous arlet valdes Wed, Feb 03 2010 00:34 CET

it is sad seeing people like this

Anonymous Alison Tue, Feb 02 2010 16:15 CET

I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau last year and although I had read and studied the Holocaust in great detail, I really wasn't prepared for just how moved I would be when I visited that place. I cannot understand how man can be so inhumane to their fellow man simply due to differences in race, colour, religion, or simply just their way of life? As the monument in Birkenau states: ''FOR EVER LET THIS PLACE BE A CRY OF DESPAIR AND A WARNING TO HUMANITY.''
We must never forget. And we must never repeat this atrocity ever again. RIP to all [...]

Read the full comment holocaust victims who are remembered not only on 27th January, but every day of each year.

Anonymous carla pateanu Mon, Feb 01 2010 19:45 CET

i know evrything there is too know about the worls war 2 and anna frank. i just cant believe in it and i am so glad hilter is dead and i hope all the bad greman soilers died a slow and long death!

Anonymous Craig Mon, Feb 01 2010 18:42 CET

I'm doing a class in college about Auschwitz and the book Night. It's really appalling that there could be so much hate in such a concentration.

Anonymous Mary katherine Mon, Feb 01 2010 04:35 CET

This brakes my heart

Anonymous*******Sat, Jan 30 2010 08:50 CET

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Anonymous Lucas Fri, Jan 29 2010 22:45 CET

The most fearsome lion, tiger, is not capable of this....

Anonymous lazaros hazan Fri, Jan 29 2010 01:15 CET

My fathers family died there.Nazi took them from Salonica Greece.

Anonymous valeria benavides Fri, Jan 29 2010 00:05 CET

this is so sad:(


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