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Gov. Gen. Payette to visit Auschwitz and Israel to mark 75-years since death camp’s liberation

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During the Second World War, 1.3 million prisoners were sent to Auschwitz, pictured here in 2017, where 1.1 million were killed, including approximately one million Jews. The death camp was liberated by the Soviet Union's Red Army on Jan. 27, 1945.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

January 22, 2020

Governor General Julie Payette is in Israel and later this week, on Jan. 27, will travel to Poland to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. During the Second World War, from 1940 to 1945, 1.3 million prisoners were sent to Auschw...

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