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Last update - 23:28 16/03/2008 Holocaust survivors march from Krakow ghetto to mark 65 years since liquidation By Reuters Tags: Holocaust, Jews, Krakow  Hundreds of Jews on Sunday marked the 65th anniversary of the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto with a march commemorating the German businessman whose efforts had saved Jews from the Holocaust. Some 700 Jews from Poland, Israel and other countries marched from the site of the former ghetto to what had been a Nazi German labor camp in the suburb of Plaszow, many of whose inmates were employed by Oskar Schindler. Advertisement "Schindler was controversial, perhaps even a bit mad, but he was one of the few Germans who did such a thing," said 86-year-old Jan Dresner of Tel Aviv, one of some 30 marchers saved by the factory-owner. "This is my first trip to Krakow since then, because I was afraid of those memories, but I felt it was my duty to come with my wife and daughter to tell about it." Schindler, made famous by the 1993 Steven Spielberg film "Schindler's List", had used his influence with fellow-Nazis as well as bribes and forged documents to save more than one thousand Polish Jews. After the occupying Germans had liquidated the ghetto in March 1943, gunning down those who resisted, they herded its survivors into the Plaszow labor camp. "I saw the ghetto being liquidated," said Edward Mosberg of the U.S., now also in his 80s. "I saw hundreds of dead bodies strewn all about -- it was a total cataclysm." "I have come to bear witness to those days, because the ranks of us survivors are growing extremely thin." Niusia Horowitz-Karakulska of Krakow was only seven when the ghetto was liquidated, but she and 15 family members owed their survival to the German entrepreneur. "Schindler was such a warm, magnificent person who had many problems of his own but felt human life must be saved," Hororowitz-Karakulska, 72, said. Poland, which was invaded by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia at the start of World War Two in September 1939, lost six million citizens in the war, half of them Jewish. Up to 1.5 million perished at the notorious Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, some 40 km (25 miles) west of Krakow. Related articles: 'British Oskar Schindler' in running for Nobel Peace Prize A celebrity at the age of 92 A sign points to the grave Bookmark to del.icio.us   Declassifying AIPAC Two former pro-Israel lobbyists charged with revealing secret info. to Israeli diplomats. Jersualem pilgrimage Christian pilgrims flock to Holy City to mark Good Friday and retrace the route of Jesus.   1.   St pat`s day 23:37  |  jc 16/03/08   2.   #1 03:21  |  Rab Burns 17/03/08   3.   Polin 03:37  |  Marcin 17/03/08   4.   message to POLANI marcin #2 06:08  |  DENNIS 17/03/08   5.   Israel 01:45  |  David Ben Gurion 23/03/08

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