Holocaust remembered

OSWIECIM - Some 2,500 Jewish youths, mainly from Israel, Canada and the US, marked world Holocaust Day yesterday by staging a…

OSWIECIM - Some 2,500 Jewish youths, mainly from Israel, Canada and the US, marked world Holocaust Day yesterday by staging a March of the Living at the site of Nazi Germany's biggest death camp in southern Poland.

They marched from the site of the former Auschwitz concentration camp to nearby Birkenau, where most of the complex's 1.5 million victims were killed.

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