The Netherlands will hold a reading marathon to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation ofthe Auschwitz death camp.

During the event, the names and ages of all the 102,000 Dutch Jews who died in German concentration camps during World War Two will be read aloud, Dutch News Agency reported Monday.

The ceremony will take 112 hours and has been organized by the Dutch Auschwitz Committee and the Camp Westerbork Remembrance Center.

The reading of the Amsterdam victims of the Holocaust started in the Hollandsche Schouwburg in Amsterdam on Saturday night before moving to the Resistance Museum.

The reading will continue uninterrupted until Thursday (Jan. 27)the date on which Auschwitz was liberated in 1945. Meanwhile, thedate is also used to honor the 6 million people killed during the Holocaust, report said.

Education State Secretary Clemence Ross and Fia Polak, who was freed from Auschwitz as a young girl, will read the last names out.

Some 700 people will read the names out, including many camp survivors and those who went into hiding during the war. Survivingrelatives, former neighbors, students, politicians, government representatives and personnel from the Israeli embassy will also read the names out.

All over the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. It was established by the Nazis in 1940, in the suburbs of Oswiecim, a Polish city that was annexed to the Third Reich by the Nazis.

From among all the people deported to Auschwitz, approximately 400,000 people were registered and placed in the camp and its sub-camps. Over half of the registered prisoners died as a result of starvation, excessive labor, terror, executions, inhuman living conditions, disease and epidemics, punishment, torture, and criminal medical experiments.

Source: Xinhua