Some 18,000 marchers in Poland marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. Many of the participants in Thursday’s March of the Living wrapped themselves in Israeli flags. Others carried the flags of some of the 60-plus nations represented as they walked the 1.8 miles from Auschwitz to Birkenau, where prisoners were gassed during World War II.
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