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Auschwitz Joins Facebook

Museum hopes profile will educate young people

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 14, 2009 2:18 PM CDT

(Newser) – The Auschwitz death camp—now a museum about the horrors that transpired there—has joined Facebook. Officials hope to educate young people about the Holocaust but say they are sensitive to concerns about trivializing the site's history. "We want it to be a place... Read full story »

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