60 years after Auschwitz closed, site keeps memory alive
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OSWIECIM, Poland -- At first, the red-brick barracks look almost respectable, numbered like normal houses along tree-lined paths. But then the gas chamber reveals itself through the wintry fog, and the death wall where prisoners were stripped and shot, and the soil and ponds still full of teeth and crumbled bones from incinerated corpses.
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It was a sight not seen in Berlin s Beit Zion synagogue in 66 years: This week, for the first time since 1939, services were held in this tiny synagogue that the Nazis failed to destroy.
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A Polish woman who for 60 years had been holding onto the diary of a young Jewish girl killed by the Nazis in 1943, presented the journal to Israel's Holocaust memorial on Monday.
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LODZ, PolandâSam Weinreich remembers the last time he came to Radegast train station in Poland&#39;s second-largest city - the day in 1944 he was forced into a cattle car and sent to Nazi Germany&#39;s Auschwitz death camp.
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Memorial ... visitors walk through the gates at Auschwitz. EUROPE united in collective sorrow and shame at yesterday's commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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LODZ, Poland  - Holocaust survivors and their families gathered at one of Europe's largest Jewish cemeteries Sunday to remember more than 200,000 Jews from this city killed by the Nazis, a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the last transports from the Lodz ghetto to Hitler's death camps.
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The last time Trudy Spira was in Auschwitz, she was 12 years old. The day of liberation is my second birthday - I was reborn on that day, said Spira, who came from Venezuela with her son Ernesto, 48, to show ...
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Dusted by falling snow and surrounded by barbed wire, world leaders mourned the victims of the Holocaust on Thursday, the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the biggest Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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After the dual destructions wrought by the Holocaust and communism, Eastern European Jewish communal life was little more than a memory 15 years ago.
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Friday's papers provide vivid coverage of yesterday's ceremonies at the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
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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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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.
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Prince Edward and Jack Straw will visit Auschwitz to mark the 60th anniversary of the Nazi camp's liberation.
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JERUSALEM -- Hilda Shlick thought she lost nearly all her family in the Holocaust -- until her Internet-savvy grandsons located her 81-year-old brother in Canada.
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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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Europe's Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva celebrates 50 years of its work.
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Survivors of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz join the Queen to mark the 60th anniversary of its liberation.