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70th anniversary
Merkel says Germans can never forget death camp horrors
Germans will never forget the \”unfathomable horrors\” that the Nazis inflicted at the death camps, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp near Munich.
On Dachau’s 70th anniversary of liberation, a new “Arbeit macht frei” gate
A German blacksmith who painstakingly rebuilt an iron gate at the Dachau concentration camp bearing the notorious \”Arbeit macht frei\” (work sets you free) slogan hoped no one would notice his work was a replica.
At Bergen-Belsen memorial, warnings and worry on Holocaust remembrance
At the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, hundreds of survivors, along with their children and grandchildren, stood together last weekend under gray skies on a ground alive with memories doing their part for the future.
Survivors gather for historic anniversary at Auschwitz
Holocaust survivors gathered in Krakow on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz amid unease regarding the safety of Jews in Europe.