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The commemoration of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz will focus on portraits mostly drawn by prisoners. The event on Saturday – which is also International Holocaust Remembrance Day – will show that the drawings made in the camp symbolize the individual human being, a statement by the Auschwitz museum in Poland said. Piotr Cywinski, director of the museum, said that too many people today associate Auschwitz primarily with its grounds – barbed wire, barracks and watchtowers. “It is an empty space filled with relics of camp architecture. …

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