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PCJ-53609

INTERFAITH CEREMONY MARKS 35th ANNIVERSARY OF DACHAU LIBERATION

ALBANY, N.Y.--During a recent ceremony in Albany, N.Y., marking the

35th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp on April 29, 1945,

Oliver D. Collins, left, a U.S. Army Infantry squad leader

during World War II, talks with Julian Noga--wearing his prison

uniform--one of the survivors he helped free.

In a moving expression of solidarity, Jews and Polish

Christians who survived Dachau, joined hands at the service,

in a moment of silent prayer. Prayers and messages from Protestant,

Catholic and Jewish clergy were included and a special Hebrew prayer

was said by Rabbi Martin Norden, of the local Temple Israel -- himself

a survivor of Buchenwald. The commemorants were reminded by Rabbi

Paul B. Silton, of the same synagogue, of the words of Elie Wiesel:

"Not all of the victims were Jews. But all of the Jews were victims."

He said the greatest memorial to the 12 million Jewish and Christian

victims of Hitler's atrocities would be to bring to justice the Nazi

war criminals remaining free in the U.S.

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