(ANSA-AP) - WARSAW, FEB 15 - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence
is visiting the memorial site of Auschwitz along with the Polish
president. It was the first visit for Pence, a conservative
Christian, to the site where German forces murdered 1.1 million
people, most of them Jews but also Poles, Roma and others,
during the Nazis' occupation of Eastern Europe during World War
II.
Pence and his wife were joined by Polish President Andrzej
Duda and the Polish first lady, Agata Kornhauser-Duda.
They began their visit Friday by walking under the notorious
gate with the German words "Arbeit Macht Frei," the Nazi slogan
meaning "Work sets you free." The vast complex includes
surviving barracks and watchtowers as well as the ruins of gas
chambers and crematoria where the Nazis murdered people and
burned their bodies. (ANSA-AP).
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