June 14


POLAND:

65th anniversary of first transport to Auschwitz Nazi death camp


Commemorations of the 65th anniversary of the first transport of prisoners
to the Auschwitz concentration camp have began in the southern city of
Tarnow. It was from there that the Nazis had gathered 728 young Poles,
mostly soldiers who hadnt escaped after the German onslaught in 1939, to
be sent to Auschwitz. They arrived at the death camp on June 14th, 1940,
which is considered to be the official date of the establishment of what
was to become the biggest graveyard in World War Two and the site of the
Holocaust.

(source: Radio Polonia)