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Holocaust memorials go up in E. Europe

Holocaust memorial in the shape of a weeping willow tree, erected in 1990 in back of the Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest. (Ruth Ellen Gruber) The Ghetto Heroes monument, erected in Warsaw in 1948 on the site of the World War II Warsaw Ghetto, will stand behind the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews. (Ruth Ellen Gruber) Inscription at the entrance to the monument at the site of the Belzec death camp in southeastern Poland, where some 500,000 Jews were killed. (Ruth Ellen Gruber) Stairs leading down to the Wall of Names section of the vast 5-year-old monument at the site of the Nazi death camp in Belzec, Poland. (Ruth Ellen Gruber) Part of the monument at the Paneriai Forest in Vilnius, where tens of thousands were massacred. The site is now a memorial park. (Ruth Ellen Gruber) A monument on the bank of the Danube commemorates Jews who were shot dead and thrown into the water by the local Fascist Arrow Cross during the Holocaust. (Ruth Ellen Gruber)

A monument on the bank of the Danube commemorates Jews who were shot dead and thrown into the water by the local Fascist Arrow Cross during the Holocaust. (Ruth Ellen Gruber)

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