Auschwitz Liberation Day

I have been grappling all day with wanting to say something about this important occasion. I've been watching the memorial service via BBC online, and it is such a dark, imposing cermony to mark the end of a dark event. There is really nothing I can say that would be eloquent enough.


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A wreath lies on the tracks leading to the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz ahead of the 60th anniversary ceremony of the camp's liberation.



German President Horst Koehler, who remained silent in recognition of Germany's role as perpetrator of the Holocaust, places a candle at a monument for the camp victims.



The ceremony ended with a moving display of rail tracks on fire symbolising the loss of life at the camp.

Source: BBC News



People light candles along the railway tracks in front of the former death camp. Victims arrived on trains and were sent to work or to the gas chambers to be killed.



The rail lines running into the Birkenau concentration camp were set alight as night closed in.

Source: Sky News.com