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Budapest, November 1944: Another German train has loaded its cargo of Jews bound for Auschwitz. A young Swedish diplomat pushes past the SS guard and scrambles onto the roof of a cattle car.Ignoring shots fired over his head, he reaches through the open...
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Rabbi Meir Lau from Tel Aviv carries a Torah as he participates in the annual March of the Living at the former Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, southern Poland, May 1, 2008, to commemorate Holocaust victims.
