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Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012 – in photos

by | 27th, January 2012

HOLOCAUST Remembrance Day 2012 – in photos. The remembrance day marks the day of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps 67 years ago. Outside the death camps – beyond those gates with their demonic German joke – survivors gathered. They came to remember. They came to remind us not to forget.

The portraits of Soviet soldiers at a remembrance site at the Sachsenhausen Nazi death are eerie. They stand on a stone field marking a barrack that hosted a so-called “neck-shot facility”. More than 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war were killed in one barrack in 1941. The numbers are too big to comprehend. You can only take in one face at a time…and that can be too much to stand…

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Holocaust survivors lay wreaths at the “Wall of Death” at Auschwitz on the 67th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Friday Jan. 27, 2012. The Wall of Death was a site where Nazi Germans executed their victims at the notorious camp in occupied southern Polandthere. Survivors and others gather every year to commemorate those who perished on the anniversary of the camp’s liberation by the Soviet Red Army on Jan. 27, 1945. (AP Photo/Katarzyna Guratowska) POLAND OUT



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