A woman from Israel lays flowers during a ceremony to
mourn victims of the Holocaust in Bergen-Belsen, April 15, 2005.
Hundreds of Nazi concentration camp survivors gathered in Berlin
on Sunday, marking the 60th anniversary of their liberation.
In Sachsenhausen camps north of Berlin, German Foreign Minister
Joschka Fischer reiterated the obligation of Germans to remember the Nazi
Crimes. Germans "can never and will never" escape the responsibility, said
Fischer, adding that the memory of those crimes must be kept alive for Germany's
future generations.
Some 200,000 prisoners were held here between 1936 and 1945 until
the Soviet Red Army liberated them on April 22, 1945.
In the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, 100 kilometers
south of German city of Hamburg, president of Germany's Central Council of Jews
Paul Spiegel called for more strength to fight against the right-wing extremism
and anti-Semitism.
"Anti-Semitism and the discrimination of minorities have posed an
ever serious danger not only in Germany but also in many other countries,"
Spiegel said.