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UPDATED: 09:02, January 26, 2005 |
| Photo exhibit marks 60th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation |
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan delivers a speech in the opening ceremony of the commemoration picture exhibit of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in New York Jan. 24, 2005. The exhibit opened Monday and it's a collection of photographs and paintings from the two death camps in Auschwitz. More than 600 people attended the opening ceremony.
Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom delivers a speech in the opening ceremony of the commemoration photo exhibit of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in New York Jan. 24, 2005.
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (2nd, R) takes a photo with Israeli officials as they visit the photo exhibit of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in New York Jan. 24, 2005.
Soviet soldiers are seen with some of the prisoners they liberated in the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, in this archival photo. Some 7,000 prisoners, including more than 600 below the age of 18, were still alive when the camp was liberated. On January 27, 2005, hundreds of survivors and dozens of world leaders will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation by the Soviet army and pay homage to the estimate 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, murdered there by the Nazis. (Picture taken from a Soviet documentary of the liberation of Auschwitz in January 1945). (Xinhua/Reuters)
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