Holocaust Day marked at Nazi death camp Auschwitz

[IndianaGreen]

Source: BBC News


A replica of the Arbeit Macht Frei sign has been erected at Auschwitz

Holocaust Day marked at Nazi death camp Auschwitz

Page last updated at 16:55 GMT, Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Events have taken place at Auschwitz to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, as the world marks Holocaust Memorial Day.

Elderly survivors gathered in freezing weather in Poland, where the camp was built under German occupation.

Israel's prime minister and president urged that the Holocaust should never be forgotten, mourned its dead, and warned of a new danger posed by Iran.

More than a million people were murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz.

The great majority were Jews but they also included non-Jewish Poles, Roma Gypsies and Soviet prisoners of war.

The camp was liberated by the Soviet Red Army on 27 January 1945.

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According to Russian records, the estimate of people killed at Auschwitz is 4 million, that's 3 million more than most people realized.

[David Zephyr]

1. K&R.

I will remember.

[abq e streeter]

2. I can't forget, ever...even if I tried...I am haunted by it even though I was born in 1951

but the combination of the enormity of it combined with the incomprehensible cruelties never are very far down in my subconscious. I can't comprehend how those who lived through it deal with it.