'Do not be indifferent': Auschwitz survivors call for world to stay vigilant

Ceremony in Poland attended by royalty, presidents and ambassadors from across globe

Survivors of Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp, have warned the world against indifference to hatred, at a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of its liberation by the Soviet army.

More than 200 survivors of the camp were among more than 3,000 who gathered in a huge purpose-built tent enveloping the notorious “Gate of Death” where prisoners were brought into the camp in southern Poland by cattle car, selected into lines of those who would live and die, and where most were murdered almost immediately in gas chambers.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2GuY5ix

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