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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alastair Jamieson

Holocaust remembered at Auschwitz as Europe’s peace is shattered by Ukraine war

AP

Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners commemorated the 78th anniversary on Friday of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, some expressing horror that war has again shattered peace in Europe.

The former camp, in Oswiecim in southern Poland, became a place of systematic murder of Jews, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma and others targeted for elimination by Hitler during the Second World War.

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