Grasso says 'indifference' denounced

(see related)(ANSA) - Rome, January 27 - Acting Italian president Pietro Grasso said Tuesday that "indifference" in the face of horror was denounced at ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp.
    Grasso summarized the message from the services at the former extermination camp in Poland, saying that participants agreed on the slogan "never again indifference".
    "(We must fight against) the phenomena that divide us," he said.
    From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the gas chambers at Auschwitz from all over German-occupied Europe.
    At least 1.1 million prisoners died at Auschwitz, 90% of them Jewish.
    Others deported to Auschwitz included 150,000 Poles, 23,000 Romani and Sinti, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, 400 Jehovah's Witnesses, an undetermined number of gay people, and tens of thousands of people of diverse nationalities.
    Many of those not gassed died of starvation, forced labor, disease, individual executions, and medical experiments.
    Survivors Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl, and Elie Wiesel wrote memoirs of their experiences in Auschwitz, which was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.
    The camp were liberated on January 27, 1945, a day now commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.