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PORTAGE/KALAMAZOO, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Holocaust survivor Irving Roth will visit Kalamazoo Tuesday.   He survived Auschwitz and has written about his experience in the Nazi camps.   He will speak to students at Portage Northern's Auditorium...  

To commemorate the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, speakers at a Kew Gardens Hills synagogue last week said individuals must fight to stop mass killings that continue today in places like the Congo and Darfur.“Please, as a human race, we must remember the Holocaust...  

Toronto, Canada – Students and staff at a Toronto school gave a local Holocaust survivor something hatred took away. Today Martin Maxwell, 85, is got an honorary high school diploma from The York School. He was 14 years old and about three months shy of earning the equivalent of one when he was forced to flee [...]  

BBC 27 Jabuary 2010 More than a million people died in Auschwitz Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp survivors have been among those marking the 65th anniversary of its liberation at UK Holocaust Memorial Day events. Many attended a national commemoration at London’s Guildhall, with other survivors of genocide and politicians. In a statement, the Archbishop of Canterbury urged people to hear their [...]  

Parliament president Jerzy Buzek has described the Holocaust as “the greatest ever human tragedy”, 65 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Buzek, who grew up a stone’s throw from the Nazi death camp, returned to his native Poland for a commemoration ceremony, organised by the European Jewish Congress, World Holocaust Forum, and Yad Vashem. Following an evocative [...]  

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Late last year, in early October, Sidra and I visited Poland for the first time, and among our stops, inevitably, we visited Auschwitz-Birkenau. Walking the pathway, smack down the middle of the camp, I decided... Holocaust - Poland - Auschwitz concentration camp - Sidra - Oswiecim  

January 27 was designated as the Day to Remember the Victims of the Nazi Holocaust, the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by Soviet troops. What those Soviet soldiers found there, the largest of the many concentration camps spread throughout Europe from Germany to the three Baltic States, stunned the world into silence as images of the most shocking cruelty leaked out. The Holocaust (from the Greek...  

By Gina Gomez Jan 27, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Today being the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, hundreds of elderly survivors of the former concentration camp of Auschwitz, gathered at the death camp in a bid to mark the 65th anniversary of its liberation. The survivors went to the barracks and watchtowers of the former concentration camp along with [...]  

Europa Newswire January 29, 2010 By Amy Lieberman UNITED NATIONS – It’s been 65 years since Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the German Nazi’s concentration camps, was liberated, but its legacy found new life this week at the United Nations Secretariat,...  

Jerusalem - Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Centre will on Monday display the original architectural blueprints of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, which Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev said provide 'a graphic illustration of the ...  

Is there not one honorable person who knows and will speak the truth on this, the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz? On January 27th, survivors of the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau attended a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz camp and to remember the victims of the Holocaust in Auschwitz Birkenau. How can you remember the dead when the lie that brutally murdered them still lives? The...  

CBC.caAuschwitz survivor tells of her 'guardian angel'BBC NewsAs commemorations were held for the millions killed in the Nazi Holocaust, one survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp remembered how her family was divided up into two groups - those who would live and those who would die. ...Netanyahu slams Iran at AuschwitzABC OnlineIsrael slams Iran as world recalls HolocaustReutersDeath Camp Survivors Mark Auschwitz AnniversaryVoice of...  

(RFE/RL) -- Ceremonies get under way in Poland today to mark the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, by Soviet troops. In 2005, the United Nations declared this date International Holocaust ...  

Globe and MailMontreal Holocaust survivors remember AuschwitzCBC.caHolocaust survivors in Montreal are marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland at several events on Wednesday. The city's Holocaust Memorial Centre is hosting theatrical readings at several schools and a panel ...Auschwitz survivors mark Holocaust Memorial DayBBC NewsNetanyahu slams Iran at AuschwitzABC OnlineIsrael slams Iran as world...  

On 27 January 1945 the largest Nazi death camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) was liberated by Soviet troops.In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated this day as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD), an annual day of commemoration to honor the victims of the Nazi era. It was designated by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005 during the 42nd plenary session.Every UN States have an...