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A survivor and a young Polish girl are lighting candles on the ruins of the gas chamber during the ceremony to commemorate the 57 anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp,Oswiecim, 27 January, 2002. Between 1940 and 1945 about 1.5 million people, mostly European Jews, were killed in the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers or died of disease, malnutrition and forced labor.( AP PHOTO/ Czarek Sokolowski )