Ghosts of Auschwitz

YahooNews has a sobering article:

Ceremonies to mark the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz (photo) will take place on 27 January 2015, with some three hundred former Auschwitz prisoners taking part in the commemoration event. The Germans built the Auschwitz camp in 1940 as a place of incarceration for Poles.  From 1942, it became the largest site of extermination of Jews from Europe. In Auschwitz, the Nazis killed at least a million people, mainly Jews, but also Poles, Gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war and prisoners of other ethnicities. On 27 January 1945, the camp was liberated by Red Army soldiers.

Notable inmates of Auschwitz include Anne Frank, Viktor Frankl, Maximilian Kolbe, Primo Levi, Witold Pilecki, Edith Stein, Simone Veil, Rudolf Vrba, and Elie Wiesel.

Rico says it's amazing that three hundred are still alive and willing to go; if Hitler'd had his way, of course, there'd be none, and the world would be a poorer place for it...