Train retraces route of first Auschwitz convoy, 70 years on

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Survivors of the first-ever convoy to Auschwitz paid tribute Monday to the death camp's victims, exactly 70 years after being packed into cattle cars and sent there by German troops. A train organised by a Polish survivors' organisation arrived at the site of the camp on the outskirts of Oswiecim, southern Poland, after retracing the route of original rail convoy from the town of Tarnow, 140 kilometres (87 miles) to the east.Duration: 01:12

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  • My ancestors hometown.. Tarnow.. Gara motyczna, Debica, and especially Wola Zyrakowska. My family was Catholic with last names of Zaucha and Dziurgot. Only four were taken and killed in Auschwitz. I pray for all those in WWII Poland especially my families...

  • Sad the Jews now hold another people captive in a modern Warsaw Ghetto .........

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