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Objects From Auschwitz Death Camp to Tour Europe, America

by Associated Press

   WARSAW --

   Officials at the museum of the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz say
   some exhibits are going on a tour of Europe and North America to bring
   its tragic truth about the Holocaust to a wider audience.

   The museum says Wednesday this will be its first-ever traveling
   exhibition and will include some 600 items. Most of them will come from
   the museum, but also from other collections, like Israel's Yad Vashem.
   The "Not long ago: Not far away" exhibit will include personal items of
   the victims and an original barrack from the Auschwitz-Monowitz part of
   the camp, a German freight wagon the Nazis used to bring inmates in.
   Some 1.1 million people, mostly Europe's Jews, were killed in the camp
   that Nazi Germans operated in occupied Poland during World War II.