Auschwitz a 'Shadow' on Europe's History
Warsaw/Bielefeld, Germany (ENI)--Church leaders joined heads of state on Jan. 28 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp in Poland.
"The silence of the victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau impels us to uphold, and order the upholding, of the dignity of each human being," a Jewish-born French Roman Catholic cardinal, Jean-Marie Lustiger, said in a speech at the commemoration on the site of the former German-run camp.
More than one million people, mainly Jews, were gassed to death, or died of starvation and disease at Auschwitz. Victims included 75,000 Poles, 20,000 Gypsies, and 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war.
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Article title: Auschwitz a 'Shadow' on Europe's History.
Contributors: Not available.
Magazine title: Anglican Journal.
Volume: 131.
Issue: 3
Publication date: March 2005.
Page number: 11.
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