State Visit to Poland - Day 4
All over the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide and the Holocaust.
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Their Excellencies and Canadian delegates visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Memorial.
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Their Excellencies also laid wreaths at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial plaques.
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It was established by Germans in 1940, in the suburbs of Oswiecim, a Polish city that was annexed to the Third Reich by the Nazis.
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The visit marked the end of Their Excellencies' State visit to Poland.
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Their Excellencies laid flowers at the Wall of Death.
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The preserved, authentic Memorial consists of two parts of the former concentration camp: Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
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The museum also holds thousands of items, such as suitcases that belonged to people deported to Auschwitz.
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The group learned about the millions of Jews and Poles who perished at the concentration camp during WWII.
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The Governor General took a moment to look at photographs found in the belongings taken from deportees after their arrival at Auschwitz.
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