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In this photo taken Thursday May 23, 2013, Eleanor Hensel looks through a handmade book of Holocaust prisoners' drawings and poetry before donating it to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Rohnert Park, Calif. . The book was originally presented to her husband, second lieutenant Clifford Hansel, by grateful Catholic prisoners when he helped liberate a Nazi concentration camp at the end of World War II. In this photo taken Thursday May 23
Sudanese-born Imam Mohamed H-Magid and President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), prays in front of so-called death wall at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on May 22, 2013 as part of a Holocaust awareness and anti-genocide program. Muslim religious leaders from across the globe met with Holocaust survivors in an emotional encounter at Warsaw's synagogue, as part of an anti-genocide programme that includes a visit to Auschwitz. Sudanese-born Imam Mohamed H-Magid
Umer Ahmed IIyasi , Chief Imam of India prays at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on May 22, 2013 as part of a Holocaust awareness and anti-genocide program. Muslim religious leaders from across the globe met with Holocaust survivors in an emotional encounter at Warsaw's synagogue, as part of an anti-genocide programme that includes a visit to Auschwitz. Umer Ahmed IIyasi , Chief Imam of I
A Muslim religious leader listens through a head set as he looks at pictures of prisoners of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on May 22, 2013 as part of a Holocaust awareness and anti-genocide program. Muslim religious leaders from across the globe met with Holocaust survivors in an emotional encounter at Warsaw's synagogue, as part of an anti-genocide programme that includes a visit to Auschwitz. A Muslim religious leader listens t
Muslim religious leaders from across the globe walk through the gate that reads 'Work sets free' (Arbeit macht frei) at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau as part of an anti-genocide programme on May 22, 2013. Muslim religious leaders from across the globe met with Holocaust survivors in an emotional encounter at Warsaw's synagogue, as part of an anti-genocide programme that includes a visit to Auschwitz. Muslim religious leaders from acros
Muslim religious leaders from across the globe pray in front of so-called death wall at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau as part of an anti-genocide programme on May 22, 2013. Muslim religious leaders from across the globe met with Holocaust survivors in an emotional encounter at Warsaw's synagogue, as part of an anti-genocide programme that includes a visit to Auschwitz. Muslim religious leaders from acros
Palestinian Imam Barakah Hasan from Ramallah stands in front monument of the Ghetto Uprising 1943 on May 21, 2013 in Warsaw. Muslim religious leaders from across the globe met with Holocaust survivors and their saviours in an emotional encounter at Warsaw's synagogue, as part of an anti-genocide programme that includes a visit to Auschwitz. Palestinian Imam Barakah Hasan from
President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Sudanese-born Imam Mohamed H-Magid (L) and Chief Imam of India Umer Ahmed IIyasi (C) visit Warsaw's new Museum of the History of Polish Jews on May 21, 2013 in Warsaw. Muslim religious leaders from across the globe met with Holocaust survivors and their saviours in an emotional encounter at Warsaw's synagogue, as part of an anti-genocide programme that includes a visit to Auschwitz. President of the Islamic Society of
Muslim religious leaders on a study tour listen to a guide talking about the Ghetto Uprising of 1943 on May 21, 2013 in Warsaw. Muslim religious leaders from across the globe met with Holocaust survivors and their saviours in an emotional encounter at Warsaw's synagogue, as part of an anti-genocide programme that includes a visit to Auschwitz. Muslim religious leaders on a study
Son of Czechoslovakian Jewish graphic designer and artist Bedrich Fritta, Thomas Fritta-Haas takes part in a press conference during a press preview of the exhibition 'Drawings from the Theresienstadt Ghetto' at the Jewish Museum in Berlin May 15, 2013. The exhibition shows works Bedrich Fritta produced in the Theresienstadt ghetto between 1942 and 1944. Deported to Theresienstadt on December 4, 1941, Fritta supervised the drawing studio of the Jewish self-administration, before being deported to Auschwitz In October 1944, where he died soon after arriving. Over 50 works, produced secretly in the Theresienstadt camp, showing daily life there, are on display from May 17 to August 25, 2013. Thomas Fritta-Haas survived the camps, and was adopted by his father's close friend Leo Haas. Son of Czechoslovakian Jewish graph
The drawing 'Clearing the Sudeten Barracks' (1943) by Czechoslovakian Jewish graphic designer and artist Bedrich Fritta is on display at the exhibition 'Drawings from the Theresienstadt Ghetto' at the Jewish Museum in Berlin May 15, 2013. The exhibition shows works Bedrich Fritta produced in the Theresienstadt ghetto between 1942 and 1944. Deported to Theresienstadt on December 4, 1941, Fritta supervised the drawing studio of the Jewish self-administration, before being deported to Auschwitz In October 1944, where he died soon after arriving. Over 50 works, produced secretly in the Theresienstadt camp, showing daily life there, are on display from May 17 to August 25, 2013. The drawing 'Clearing the Sudeten B
Concentration camp survivor Moshe Spitzer, 85, from Israel, sits in a wheelchair in front of the entrance of the former concentration camp Mauthausen near Linz in upper Austria May 5, 2013. The Nazis first took Spitzer and his family to Auschwitz concentration camp where SS doctor Josef Mengele selected him as a worker to be sent to Mauthausen in 1944, Spitzer said. Between August 1938 and May 1945, the Nazis imprisoned around 200,000 people in concentration camp Mauthausen with a death toll of around 81,000. Mauthausen was liberated on May 5, 1945 by U.S troops. Picture taken May 5. Concentration camp survivor Moshe S
Photo taken on April 9, 2013 shows Kurt Schrimm, head of Central Office of the Judicial Authorities of the Federal States for The Investigation of National Socialist Crimes, in the archive of the institution in Ludwigsburg, southwestern Germany. Germany broads its investigation into former Nazi death camp guards from Auschwitz to those who served in other concentration camps, and announced on May 6, 2013 the arrest of a 93-year-old alleged former Auschwitz guard on charges of complicity in mass murder which reopened an emotional debate on whether a measure of justice can be too late in coming. Photo taken on April 9, 2013 shows
President of European Parliament Martin Schulz (3rd L) and members of his delegation pass the gate of the former Auschwitz concentration camp during their visit at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site on April 20, 2013. Schulz visited the former Nazi death camp at the end of his three days visit to Poland. President of European Parliament Ma
President of European Parliament Martin Schulz stands in front of the gate of the former Birkenau concentration camp during his visit at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site on April 20, 2013. Schulz visited the former Nazi death camp at the end of his three days visit to Poland. President of European Parliament Ma
Simcha Rotem, one of the last living members of the Warsaw Ghetto resistance, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, Israeli Education Minister Shai Piron and Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, secretary of state and former Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner, walk to lay a wreath during a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, in Warsaw April 19, 2013. Simcha Rotem, one of the last livin
Concentration camp survivor Vasile Nussbaum, 83, from Romania stands in front of the memorial side of the Camp Gate at former concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar April 11, 2013. Nussbaum was imprisoned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald for one year and returned to Buchenwald on occassion of the liberation day ceremonies. Between July 1937 and April 1945, the Nazis imprisoned a quarter million people in concentration camp Buchenwald with a death toll of around 56,000. Buchenwald was liberated on April 11, 1945 by U.S troops. Picture taken April 11, 2013. Concentration camp survivor Vasile
Auschwitz concentration camp survivor Ruth Webber of West Bloomfield, Mich., left, lights a candle with State Representative Kate Segal of Battle Creek, as Michigan lawmakers, faith leaders and community members gatherd under the Capitol rotunda in Lansing, Mich. to honor the memory of the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust, Thursday, April 11, 2013. Webber was nine years old when she was liberated from Auschwitz. Auschwitz concentration camp surviv
Kurt Schrimm, head of Central Office of the Judicial Authorities of the Federal States for The Investigation of National Socialist Crimes, poses in the archive of the institution in Ludwigsburg, southwestern Germany, on April 9, 2013. Germany plans to broaden its investigation into former Nazi death camp guards from Auschwitz to those who served in other concentration camps. Kurt Schrimm, head of Central Offic
People wear Israeli flags around their shoulders as they walk on the railroad tracks inside the former Nazi death camp of Birkenau (Auschwitz II) in Oswiecim-Brzezinka, southern Poland April 8, 2013. Thousands of mainly Jewish people participated in the 22nd annual People wear Israeli flags around th
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A British participant of the annual 'March of the Living' places a memory plaque into a pile of pebbles on the premisses of the KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, in Oswiecim, Poland on April 8, 2013 to commemorate the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust. A British participant of the annual
Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff, Benny Gantz, left, salutes to Israeli Army soldiers as they march in the former Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, April 8, 2013. Jews from Israel and around the world took part in the annual March of the Living on the 3km route from Auschwitz to Birkenau Nazi Death Camps, commemorating the Holocaust victims. Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Sta
A group of blind people with guide dogs walk under the entrance gate to the former Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz Birkenau with the infamous German inscription 'Arbeit Macht Frei', (Work Sets You Free) in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, April 8, 2013. Jews from Israel and around the world took part in the annual March of the Living on the 3km route from Auschwitz to Birkenau Nazi Death Camps, commemorating the Holocaust victims. A group of blind people with guide
Participants of the March of the Living walk walk under the entrance gate to the former Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz Birkenau with the infamous German inscription 'Arbeit Macht Frei', (Work Sets You Free) in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, April 8, 2013. Jews from Israel and around the world took part in the annual March of the Living on the 3km route from Auschwitz to Birkenau Nazi Death Camps, commemorating the Holocaust victims. Participants of the March of the Li
Participants of the March of the Living walk through a barbed wire fence in the former Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, April 8, 2013. Jews from Israel and around the world took part in the annual March of the Living on the 3km route from Auschwitz to Birkenau Nazi Death Camps, commemorating the Holocaust victims. Participants of the March of the Li
Visitors are seen reflected in a picture showing the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Sunday, April 7, 2013. The annual Israeli memorial day for the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust of World War II begins at sundown Sunday. Visitors are seen reflected in a pi
File photo of a filing cabinet containing original documents with information about prisoners of the former concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald is seen at the International Tracing Service (ITS) the world's biggest Holocaust archive, in the central German town of Bad Arolsen May 10, 2006. The archive contains 30 million documents on survivors of Nazi camps, Gestapo prisons, forced labourers and displaced persons and rivals Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Center and the Washington Holocaust Memorial Museum in historical value. While the ITS receives 12,000 enquiries a month and reunites up to 50 families a year, new director, U.S. historian Rebecca Boehling, wants to step up the transformation of the archive into an international academic and educational centre. File photo of a filing cabinet cont
Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras attends a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the first deportation of Jews from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz inside the Monastirioton synagogue in Thessaloniki March 17, 2013. Jews gathered at the northern town of Greece to participate in a series of events which were organized by the Thessaloniki Jewish community marking the first deportation of Thessaloniki Jews to Nazi death camps during World War Two. Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Sam
Holocaust survivor Soultana Taraboulous escorted by grandson David, left, lights a candle at the city's Monastiriotes Synagogue in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece, on Sunday, March 17, 2013, during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the first deportation of Thessaloniki Jews to Nazi extermination camps in World War II. By August 1943, 46,091 Jews had been deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Of those, 1,950 survived. Holocaust survivor Soultana Tarabou