How did Auschwitz survivors in Poland mark the 65th anniversary of its liberation?”
OSWIECIM, Poland — Auschwitz survivors, bundled against the cold and snow, are gathering at the site of the former death camp to mark the 65th anniversary of its liberation. Survivors, some with grown children – along with others there to honor the millions killed by the Nazis – moved among the barracks and watchtowers of Auschwitz and Birkenau, neighboring camps that stand as powerful symbols of the Holocaust. Later Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will join Polish leaders in commemorative ceremonies at Birkenau, the larger of the two camps, in which about 1 million Jews were murdered.
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Elderly survivors of Auschwitz, bundled tightly against the cold and snow, gathered Wednesday at the site of the former death camp to mark the 65th anniversary of its liberation. Survivors, some with grown children — and others there to honor the millions killed by the Nazis — moved among the barracks and watchtowers of Auschwitz and Birkenau, neighboring camps that stand as powerful symbols of the Holocaust. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was joining Polish leaders later in the day for commemorative ceremonies at Birkenau, the larger of the two camps, where about 1 million Jews were murdered. The tribute marks the day the Red Army liberated the camp in 1945, and is part of worldwide events on International Holocaust Remembrance Day — established by the United Nations in 2005 as a global day of commemoration. One survivor, Jadwiga Bogucka, an 84-year-old Pole sent to Auschwitz in August 1944 in mass retribution against Warsaw residents for an upri
