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Vice President Dick Cheney, flanked by his daughter Liz Cheney, places a bouquet of flowers at the Wall of Death at the Auschwitz-1 Nazi concentration camp, near Krakow, Poland, Friday, Jan. 28, 2005. Vice President Cheney was there to take part in ceremonies commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camps. The Wall of Death was named for its use as the backdrop for firing squads where thousands of prisoners were executed while the camp was in operation.
Vice President Dick Cheney, flanked by his daughter Liz Cheney, places a bouquet of flowers at the Wall of Death at the Auschwitz-1 Nazi concentration camp, near Krakow, Poland, Friday, Jan. 28, 2005. Vice President Cheney was there to take part in ceremonies commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camps. The Wall of Death was named for its use as the backdrop for firing squads where thousands of prisoners were executed while the camp was in operation.
Upon signing the memorial book at the conclusion of his visit to the Auschwitz-1 Nazi concentration camp, near Krakow, Poland,Vice President Dick Cheney writes: Vice President Dick Cheney, flanked by his daughter Liz Cheney, places a bouquet of flowers at the Wall of Death at the Auschwitz-1 Nazi concentration camp, near Krakow, Poland, Friday, Jan. 28, 2005. Vice President Cheney was there to take part in ceremonies commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camps. The Wall of Death was named for its use as the backdrop for firing squads where thousands of prisoners were executed while the camp was in operation.
Vice President Dick Cheney addresses holocaust survivors and their family members during a reception at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, Poland, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2005. Vice President Cheney leads a U.S. delegation to Poland to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. Standing in a room formerly used as barracks for Nazi prisoners, a museum guide explains to Vice President Dick Cheney about the atrocities committed there at the Auschwitz-1 Nazi concentration camp, near Krakow, Poland, Friday, Jan. 28, 2005. The window at left shows a display of empty cans of Zyklon-B gas used against former prisoners. Vice President Cheney was there to take part in ceremonies commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camps.
Vice President Dick Cheney addresses an international forum at the Juliusz Slowacki Theatre in Krakow, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2005. Vice President Dick Cheney walks to place a candle on a memorial tablet in the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2005. Vice President Cheney attend a number of ceremonies throughout the day, commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp.

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