March of the Living 2010

About 10,000 people, mainly young Jews, Marched Monday from Auschwitz to Birkenau during the annual March of the Living. They commemorated the approximate 1.1 million victims of the Nazi death camp. Many carried black ribbons in memory of Poland's President Lech Kaczynski who was killed in a plane crash Saturday along with 94 others en route to the site of a Soviet massacre of Polish officers during WWII.

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About 10,000 people, mainly young Jews, Marched Monday from Auschwitz to Birkenau during the annual March of the Living. They commemorated the approximate 1.1 million victims of the Nazi death camp. Many carried black ribbons in memory of Poland's President Lech Kaczynski who was killed in a plane crash Saturday along with 94 others en route to the site of a Soviet massacre of Polish officers during WWII.