WARSAW – Seventy years after it was liberated, 300 Auschwitz survivors – most now in their nineties – will on Tuesday return to the former Nazi death camp, the site of the largest single number of murders committed during World War II.Between 1940-45 some 1.1 million people, including one million Jews, perished in the twin death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau created by Nazi Germany in Oswiecim, southern Poland.Liberated by the Soviet Red Army on January 27, 1945, the camps have become an enduring symbol of the horrors of Nazism and the Holocaust, which claimed the lives of six million European Jews.”It …read more
Source: AsiaOne
