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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/36960/full/36960/auschwitz-survivors-mark-camps-liberation/ <br /><br /> <b>Auschwitz survivors mark camp’s liberation</b> <br /> Monday, February 2, 2009 | by <br /><br />In the depths of the Polish winter, Auschwitz survivors and government officials marked the 64th anniversary of the Nazi death camp’s liberation this week as part of worldwide Holocaust remembrance ceremonies. <p>The yearly commemoration honors the day the advancing Soviet army liberated the camp in 1945. The anniversary has been established as an annual Holocaust remembrance day by the United Nations.</p> <p>The Jan. 27 commemorations at Auschwitz included a wreath-laying ceremony and prayers at the foot of the former camp’s main memorial, which stands between the ruins of two crematoria.</p> <p>Meanwhile, in a speech to parliament, German President Horst Koehler said that “responsibility for the Shoah is part of the German identity.”</p> <p>Germany’s main Jewish group, however, boycotted the ceremony, saying they were snubbed by not being officially greeted by the speakers at the event.</p> <p>A ceremony also was planned at the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp outside Berlin. — ap</p>

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