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DW reports on Auschwitz liberation 50th anniversary

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January 24, 2025

DW dug through the archives to find our report on the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz back in 1995. Find out what Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel and Poland's then-president, Lech Walesa, said at the commemoration ceremony.

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