Soviet Infantryman Returns to Auschwitz
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On Jan. 27, 1945, Yakov Vinnichenko walked through the gates of Auschwitz into a netherworld of ghostly, emaciated women huddled together in dark barracks to prop one another up. "Some tried to kiss us, but it was uncomfortable &#151; you didn't want to get infected," the one-time Soviet infantryman recalls.
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A Russian icon that hung for years in Pope John Paul II's private chapel returned home to the Russian Orthodox Church on Saturday, a gesture the ailing pontiff hopes will improve relations between the two churches.
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The bodies of eight Ukrainian soldiers and one Kazakh killed in an explosion in Iraq are returned to Kiev.
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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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Snowflakes swirled around the crematoriums and barbed wire of Auschwitz, and a shrill train whistle pierced the silence as frail survivors and humbled world leaders remembered the victims of the Holocaust on Thursday, the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp.
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A US soldier who deserted to North Korea four decades ago embarks on a new life with his family in Japan.
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A soldier who watched his twin brother die in Iraq on their birthday returns to his regiment in Basra.
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A Belarus soldier breaks concrete slates with his forehead Sunday in Minsk during a show to mark the beginning of Maslyanitsa, a celebration of saying goodbye to winter.  (c) 2007 Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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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.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is recovering after an artery operation in Germany, officials say.
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He was back in uniform, back where he belonged. Twenty-seven pounds lighter. On the verge of a promotion to staff sergeant. Happy again, and sober. A man escaping an ugly past to build a respectable future.
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A former Nazi guard extradited from Canada  arrived in Italy on Saturday to serve a life sentence for war  crimes committed there during World War Two.
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A railway worker who emerged from a 19-year coma woke to a radically altered Poland and thinks "the world is prettier now" than it was under communism, his wife said Sunday.
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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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The UN General Assembly is to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with a special session.
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Germany&#39;s biggest synagogue reopened Friday after a major restoration, in a defiant symbol of the rebirth of Jewish life in the city where the Nazis planned the Holocaust.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (IPS) - The importance of this week's recognition by  the United Nations of the Nazi Holocaust lies as much in its  relevance to today's international realities as it does to  the historical significance of the liberation of the Auschwitz  death camp by Soviet forces 60 years ago Thursday.