Fri, Feb 10 2012
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Swedish man arrested for alleged involvement in Auschwitz sign theft.
During her brief visit to Sofia, Clinton visited Boyana Church, a Unesco world heritage site.
Plevneliev and Vice President Margarita Popova were inaugurated at a ceremony in Sofia on January 22 2012.
The French silent film, The Artist, and the family drama, The Descendants, took home the top film prizes. Meryl Streep took home the award for best dramatic actress for her turn as Margaret Thatcher in Iron Lady.
Traditional rituals and fireworks displays spanned the globe as New Year 2012 was heralded.
The first quake was at 1.58pm local time, followed by another 80 minutes later.
it is sad seeing people like this
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.
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!
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.
This brakes my heart
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The most fearsome lion, tiger, is not capable of this....
My fathers family died there.Nazi took them from Salonica Greece.
this is so sad:(