Kew Gardens, N.Y. ... Michael Preisler (left), a Polish Catholic who spent more than three years as a prisoner in Auschwitz, joined with the congregation of the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills in Queens, N.Y. to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Auschwitz death camp's liberation on January 27, 1945.
The United Nations chose the anniversary to be known each year as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.