Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012 – in photos

HOLOCAUST Remembrance Day 2012 – in photos. The remembrance day marks the day of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps 67 years ago. Outside the death camps – beyond those gates with their demonic German joke – survivors gathered. They came to remember. They came to remind us not to forget.

The portraits of Soviet soldiers at a remembrance site at the Sachsenhausen Nazi death are eerie. They stand on a stone field marking a barrack that hosted a so-called “neck-shot facility”. More than 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war were killed in one barrack in 1941. The numbers are too big to comprehend. You can only take in one face at a time…and that can be too much to stand…

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German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler, left, and Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, attend a Holocaust hour of remembrance at the German Federal Parliament, Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

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Posted: 27th, January 2012 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink