US President Obama Visits Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial(Elie Wiesel)

U.S. President Barack Obama (2ndL), German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2ndR), Buchenwald concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel (L) and International Buchenwald Committee President Bertrand Herz (R) walk through the former Buchenwald concentration camp on June 5, 2009 near Weimar, Germany. Obama is visiting the site after his stop in Cairo, where in his speech to the Muslim world he made an appeal against Holocaust denial. Obama's great-uncle, Charles Payne, was among the first U.S. soldiers to arrive at the nearby subcamp of Ohrdruf in 1945. Thousands of Jews and other inmates worked as slave laborers and died under horrendous conditions at the Buchenwald camp during World War II.  (Photo by -Pool/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Barack Obama;Angela Merkel;Elie Wiesel;Bertrand Herz
U.S. President Barack Obama (2ndL), German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2ndR), Buchenwald concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel (L) and International Buchenwald Committee President Bertrand Herz (R) walk through the former Buchenwald concentration camp on June 5, 2009 near Weimar, Germany. Obama is visiting the site after his stop in Cairo, where in his speech to the Muslim world he made an appeal against Holocaust denial. Obama's great-uncle, Charles Payne, was among the first U.S. soldiers to arrive at the nearby subcamp of Ohrdruf in 1945. Thousands of Jews and other inmates worked as slave laborers and died under horrendous conditions at the Buchenwald camp during World War II. (Photo by -Pool/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Barack Obama;Angela Merkel;Elie Wiesel;Bertrand Herz
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U.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (hidden) and Buchenwald concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel visit the former Buchenwald concentration camp on June 5, 2009 near Weimar, Germany. Obama is visiting the site after his stop in Cairo, where in his speech to the Muslim world he made an appeal against Holocaust denial. Obama's great-uncle, Charles Payne, was among the first U.S. soldiers to arrive at the nearby subcamp of Ohrdruf in 1945. Thousands of Jews and other inmates worked as slave laborers and died under horrendous conditions at the Buchenwald camp during World War II.  (Photo by Pool/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Elie Wiesel;Barack Obama U.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (hidden) and Buchenwald concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel visit the former Buchenwald concentration camp on June 5, 2009 near Weimar, Germany. Obama is visiting the site after his stop in Cairo, where in his speech to the Muslim world he made an appeal against Holocaust denial. Obama's great-uncle, Charles Payne, was among the first U.S. soldiers to arrive at the nearby subcamp of Ohrdruf in 1945. Thousands of Jews and other inmates worked as slave laborers and died under horrendous conditions at the Buchenwald camp during World War II.  (Photo by Pool/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Elie Wiesel;Angela Merkel;Barack Obama Buchenwald concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel is embraced by U.S. President Barack Obama after his speech during their visit of former Buchenwald concentration camp on June 5, 2009 near Weimar, Germany. Obama is visiting the site after his stop in Cairo, where in his speech to the Muslim world he made an appeal against Holocaust denial. Obama's great-uncle, Charles Payne, was among the first U.S. soldiers to arrive at the nearby subcamp of Ohrdruf in 1945. Thousands of Jews and other inmates worked as slave laborers and died under horrendous conditions at the Buchenwald camp during World War II.  (Photo by -Pool/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Barack Obama;Angela Merkel;Elie Wiesel;Bertrand Herz U.S. President Barack Obama (3rdL), German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2ndL), Buchenwald concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel (R) and International Buchenwald Committee President Bertrand Herz (L) walk through the former Buchenwald concentration camp on June 5, 2009 near Weimar, Germany. Obama is visiting the site after his stop in Cairo, where in his speech to the Muslim world he made an appeal against Holocaust denial. Obama's great-uncle, Charles Payne, was among the first U.S. soldiers to arrive at the nearby subcamp of Ohrdruf in 1945. Thousands of Jews and other inmates worked as slave laborers and died under horrendous conditions at the Buchenwald camp during World War II.  (Photo by Ralph Orlowski/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Barack Obama;Angela Merkel;Elie Wiesel;Bertrand Herz
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