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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.
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.
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: "On this anniversary of liberation, we look back with reverence and resolve: May God bless the survivors and the souls of the lost, and may the evils committed here never again darken our world." 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, 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. "The story of the camps reminds us that evil is real, and must be called by its name, and must be confronted." said the Vice President,"We are reminded that anti-Semitism may begin with words, but rarely stops with words ... and the message of intolerance and hatred must be opposed before it turns into acts of horror." 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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