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Cumbria remembers the Holocaust

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and people throughout the region are gathering to remember.

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Kendal marks 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945 Credit: Frank Schumann/dpa

A ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is taking place in Kendal today.

Joe Berger, a survivor of the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, will lead the ceremony.

In 1945, the Lake District became home to three hundred holocaust survivors hoping to start a new life, many of them in Windermere.

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