Auschwitz Liberation Anniversary

A red rose laid down by President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush stands at the end of the railway tracks in the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, Poland, May 31, 2003. Sixty years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, Red Army soldiers liberated the concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland.

Candles are lit at a loading ramp of former German railway company Deutsche Reichsbahn in Berlin, Jan. 27, 2005, to remember the Holocaust victims on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi-era Auschwitz death camp. Berlin Jews were deported to Auschwitz by the Nazis from this station.

Visitors walk through the entrance gate of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp in Oswiecim, southern Poland on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2005, a day before the commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp by Soviet troops. The German writing reads: Work will set you free.

Belongings of prisoners of the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, presented in the Auschwitz museum, are shown Jan. 17, 2005, in Oswiecim, southern Poland.

Watchtowers line the fence in the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jan. 17, 2005, in Oswiecim, southern Poland. An estimated 600,000 people visit the camp each year to learn or to grieve. The majority move about the complex quietly and in a spirit of reverence.

A Jewish man looks at images of Holocaust survivors that were taken on liberation day at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The photos are on display at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Jan. 24, 2005.

Visitors walk in the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz Jan. 17, 2005, in Oswiecim, southern Poland. An estimated 600,000 people visit the camp each year to learn or to grieve quietly and in a spirit of reverence.

A visitor walks along barracks in the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jan. 17, 2005, in Oswiecim, southern Poland.

Rails in the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau are shown Jan. 17, 2005, in Oswiecim, southern Poland. An estimated 600,000 people visit the camp each year.

Kurt Julius Goldstein, survivor of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, wipes away tears during his speech in front of a photo showing a way in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, during a commemoration of the International Auschwitz Committee marking the 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of Nazi concentration camp, Jan. 25, 2005.

A Jewish girl looks at belongings, including a yellow Star of David that Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis, of Holocaust survivors from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. They are on display at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Jan. 24, 2005.

A watchtower is seen through the trees in the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jan. 17, 2005, in Oswiecim, southern Poland. As the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation by Soviet troops approaches on Jan. 27, 2005, Auschwitz today is many things at once: an emblem of evil, a site of historical remembrance, and a cemetery of 1.5 million souls.

Visitors look at the crematorium in the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in Oswiecim, southern Poland, Jan. 17, 2005.

Former prisoners of the World War II Nazi death camp at Auschwitz march with a banner through the remains of the camp during commemorations marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, southern Poland, Jan. 27, 2004.

The crematorium in the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp showing two of the ovens where victims were cremated is seen in this undated file picture. The bodies were slid into the ovens by means of small wagons which ran on tracks. Sixty years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, Red Army soldiers liberated the Concentration Camp in Auschwitz, Poland.

Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia, a region annexed in 1939 to Hungary from Czechoslovakia, at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, in May 1944.

This picture released by Yad Vashem Photo Archives shows the arrival and processing of an entire transport of Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia, a region annexed in 1939 to Hungary from Czechoslovakia, at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, in May 1944.

This undated photo, taken by an SS guard, shows women prisoners lined up for a hard labor assignment at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland during World War II.

A picture, taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January 1945, shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Nazi concentration camp.

A transport of Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia await processing at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, in this May 1944 photo donated to Yad Vashem by Lili Jacob. Images from her album are on display at the United Nations in New York as part of Yad Vashem's "Auschwitz: the Depth of the Abyss" exhibit. The album will be on permanent display in Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum, due to open in March 2005.