Cardinal Lustiger to Be Envoy at Auschwitz Event
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VATICAN CITY, JAN. 9, 2005 ( Zenit.org ).- John Paul II named Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger of Paris as his special envoy to the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau ...
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Ending years of wrangles with German authorities, the US ambassador to Germany on Wednesday will preside over the groundbreaking for a new American embassy close to Berlin's historic Brandenburg Gate.
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Pope John Paul II ( bio - news ) will travel to Loreto, Italy, on Sunday, September 5, for a Mass and beatification ceremony that will conclude the annual pilgrimage of Italian Catholic Action.
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Nazi officials planned to move the Auschwitz gas chambers to a concentration camp in Austria as the Germans retreated westward from the Soviet army near the end of World War II, a magazine reported Sunday.
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German-born Pope Benedict XVI walked alone under the infamous &amp;quot;Arbeit Macht Frei&amp;quot; gate at the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau as he began a poignant visit to the site where Hitler&#039;s Germany killed 1.1 million people in World War II.
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NWS Baranski, Tibor FP Vail Daily File Photo Tibor Baranski, 81, is credited with saving several thousand Jews during the Holocaust through his work with the Papal embassy in Budapest.
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Milan central railway station&#39;s notorious  Platform 21, which witnessed the deportation of hundreds of  Jews in 1943-45, will host the city&#39;s first Holocaust memorial,  local authorities said.
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Auschwitz survivor Arno Lustiger brought  the German parliament to its feet on Thursday with a vivid  speech describing his trip through "hell" in the waning weeks  of World War II and his emotional rescue by U.S. troops.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will visit the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in Poland to mark the 60th anniversary of its liberation during World War II, his office said.
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World leaders gathering in Poland to mark 60 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.
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On the final stop of his trip to his predecessor's homeland, the German Pope visited the notorious death camp and offered a remarkable meditation on the Holocaust
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A Jewish Holocaust survivor made a plea for tolerance Tuesday at a conference in the world's most populous Muslim nation that also brought together religious leaders and victims of attacks by Islamic extremists.
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The infamous "Work makes you free" gate at Auschwitz. KRAKOW, Poland (CNN) -- Leaders from 30 countries gather Thursday to remember the victims of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the ...
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Milan central railway station's notorious Platform 21, which witnessed the deportation of hundreds of Jews in 1943-45, will host the city's first Holocaust memorial, local authorities said.
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Cardinal Clemens August von Galen, a wartime German cleric who openly criticised the Nazis and their euthanasia killings, is set to be put on the path to Roman Catholic sainthood by Pope John Paul next year.
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Cardinal Paul Poupard, the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, will travel to Belarus this weekend for a conference on the spiritual heritage of Europe.
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The UN General Assembly is to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with a special session.