Holocaust remembered at Auschwitz as Europe’s peace is shattered by Ukraine war
Former Nazi camp is only 185 miles from Ukraine
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.
In all, some 1.1 million people were killed at the vast complex before it was liberated by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945.
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