An ecumenical ceremony was held near Berlin to inter the remains of 32 Jewish and non-Jewish slave laborers who died during the final days of World War II. Their remains were recently discovered by construction workers at the site of the former Heinkel factory, which relied heavily on slave labor from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp to produce airplane parts. The 53rd anniversary of Sachsenhausen’s liberation by the Soviet army is slated to be marked Wednesday.
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