A memorial plaque was unveiled honoring those killed in two executions at concentration camps in Poland. The plaque was unveiled Monday on the 60th anniversary of a mass execution at Majdanek that killed 18,000 people, and another in which 10,000 were murdered at Trawniki on Nov. 5, 1943.
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