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Polish official: Poles near Auschwitz were not indifferent to Holocaust
By The Associated Press

Poland's president paid homage on the 62nd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz to those people living near the Nazi death camp who risked their lives to help inmates during World War II.

At a ceremony outside the site Saturday, Holocaust survivors and local residents listened to a letter from President Lech Kaczynski in which he said that the world has underestimated the determination of people outside the camp to save prisoners.

A presidential aide, undersecretary of state Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, pinned medals on about 40 people from the town of Oswiecim, where Auschwitz is located, and surrounding villages to honor them.

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World public opinion has often held that the residents of the area were completely indifferent to the fate of the prisoners, Kaczynski said in the letter, which denounced such unjust statements.

Nazi Germany set up Auschwitz after occupying Poland, at first mostly imprisoning political prisoners. However, it was later expanded into a complex where up to 1.5 million people were murdered, most of them Jews, but also Gypsies, Roman Catholics who opposed the Nazi regime, homosexuals and others.

The camp was liberated Jan. 27, 1945 by the advancing Soviet army.

Also Saturday, politicians and survivors gathered at the former Buchenwald concentration camp in eastern Germany to remember the victims, marking what the U.N. has established as an annual day of Holocaust remembrance.
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  1.   the poles killed jews with the gestapo!!!!!! 20:09  |  Ben Uziel 27/01/07
  2.   Now thats news to me! 20:40  |  Alan 27/01/07
  3.   Poland and the Holocaust 21:02  |  Dave 27/01/07
  4.   Ahh... 21:03  |  Colin Wright 27/01/07
  5.   True, Poles were not indifferent 21:43  |  Patricia 27/01/07
  6.   Not Indifferent?? 21:51  |  David ben Avraham 27/01/07
  7.   Poland is still anti-Semitic 22:44  |  Galician 27/01/07
  8.   Poland 23:23  |  R 27/01/07
  9.   To Dave no.3 23:36  |  Adam 27/01/07
  10.   To Dave no.3 23:36  |  Adam 27/01/07
  11.   To Dave no.3 23:36  |  Adam 27/01/07
  12.   Yeah! Bad, very bad Poles! 00:00  |  Bohdan 28/01/07
  13.   You Cannot Force Forgiveness Upon The Indifferent 00:06  |  Tony Anthony 28/01/07
  14.   Poland: another view 00:32  |  Norman 28/01/07
  15.   Poles near Auschwitz were not indifferent to Holocaust 00:43  |  Ron Ackert 28/01/07
  16.   On Jan Gross and Jedwabne #5 00:47  |  Michael 28/01/07
  17.   Ben Uziel #1 00:51  |  Michael 28/01/07
  18.   I agree , they were not indifferent 01:00  |  Realistic 28/01/07
  19.   No 6 01:00  |  Konrad 28/01/07
  20.   alive and well 01:05  |  noah 28/01/07
  21.   Polish indifference 01:12  |  CL 28/01/07
  22.   #6--newsreel from Germany, not Poland 01:17  |  Martin 28/01/07
  23.   doesn`t explain anything 01:19  |  Tal 28/01/07
  24.   To the ETERNAL VICTIMS and Galician 01:26  |  from POLISH 28/01/07
  25.   #13 01:42  |  Ron Ackert 28/01/07
  26.   #16--Explanations.... 02:01  |  Norman 28/01/07
  27.   Michael 02:12  |  Norman 28/01/07
  28.   IF YOU SURVIVED 03:37  |  TOBIA 28/01/07
  29.   Michael #9 04:41  |  Patricia 28/01/07
  30.   Information for stupid ignorants, 10:12  |  Thomas 28/01/07
  31.   No 16 Michael`s Grandfather 10:39  |  Konrad 28/01/07
  32.   30" "indifference", excuses and Thomas 13:24  |  David Teich 28/01/07
  33.   kielce 16:26  |  Thomas 28/01/07
  34.   Dear David ben Avraham @ 6 17:09  |  Chris 28/01/07
  35.   33: Poor try, Thomas 20:56  |  David Teich 28/01/07
  36.   35: Dawid Teich 23:21  |  Bohdan 28/01/07
  37.   Poor David. 23:54  |  Thomas 28/01/07
  38.   Ask Your Grand Parents How Poland Was and STOP crying Anti Seim 01:23  |  Vlad. T 29/01/07
  39.   36: Prefer Bohdan? Try studying. 12:01  |  David Teich 29/01/07
  40.   Thomas: Ibid 12:53  |  David Teich 29/01/07
  41.   Let`s think a while... 13:21  |  Maciej 29/01/07
  42.   39 David Taich: Study your OWN history 17:54  |  Bohdan 29/01/07
  43.   How to treat the hatred 22:38  |  Peter 29/01/07
  44.   To David Teich 03:01  |  Nath 30/01/07
  45.   To David Teich - again 03:15  |  Nath 30/01/07
  46.   42: Bohdan, let me interest you in the concept of "time" 09:35  |  David Teich 30/01/07
  47.   44: Nath, how would you know? 09:42  |  David Teich 30/01/07
  48.   To David 11:13  |  Nath 30/01/07
  49.   To David - 2 11:16  |  Nath 30/01/07
  50.   To David: about the radio 11:45  |  Nath 30/01/07
  51.   Gosh, Nath, how illuminating 13:58  |  David Teich 30/01/07
  52.   Gosh, Nath, how illuminating (part 2) 14:00  |  David Teich 30/01/07
  53.   51, 52 etc. 17:19  |  Konrad 30/01/07
  54.   46 Dawid "time" 17:20  |  Bohdan 30/01/07
  55.   To David 19:43  |  Nath 30/01/07
  56.   To David 20:48  |  Nath 30/01/07
  57.   55: Nath: Huh? p1 09:56  |  David Teich 01/02/07
  58.   55: Nate: Huh? p2 10:01  |  David Teich 01/02/07
  59.   54: Wow, still ranting Bohdan? 10:15  |  David Teich 01/02/07
  60.   Bohdan & Nath: Excerpts from an article you should read 10:18  |  David Teich 01/02/07
  61.   No 60 13:27  |  Konrad 01/02/07
  62.   To David - you need some basic course in politics... 02:32  |  Nath 02/02/07
  63.   To David 02:36  |  Nath 02/02/07
  64.   "Poles near Auschitz-not indiff. to Holocaust 05:53  |  Michael Volk 02/02/07
  65.   To David - soul searching (and a good article) 07:58  |  Nath 02/02/07
  66.   To David - regarding the article you quoted 08:29  |  Nath 02/02/07
  67.   Indifference 04:48  |  Less 03/02/07
  68.   Sad Nath, you just can`t stop rationalizing 13:21  |  David Teich 03/02/07
  69.   To David 21:41  |  Nath 03/02/07
  70.   to Michael Volk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 22:29  |  Andrzej 12/08/07
  71.   to Andrzej 23:29  |  Ron 23/08/07
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