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Survivors Mark Holocaust Remembrance Day On 74th Anniversary Of Auschwitz Liberation

Former prisoners gathered at the site of the former concentration camp to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Holocaust survivors visited the former Auschwitz concentration camp on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Former prisoners of Auschwitz gathered at the former Nazi concentration camp on the 74th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet forces.

In the site that once housed the largest Nazi death camp, a group of survivors, politicians and foreign dignitaries marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day in a ceremony Sunday.

"Auschwitz has shown what can happen when the, premier of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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