CANADIAN PM TRUDEAU SHEDS TEARS ON AUSCHWITZ VISIT:

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau visited the Auschwitz memorial, wiping away tears several times. Among those joining Trudeau on his tour,10 July 2016, of the World War ll Nazi death camp was Nate Leipciger, a former prisoner there who immigrated to Canada from his native Poland in 1948 at the age of 18. Members of the delegation visited much of the museum exhibition, including one block showing photographs documenting the arrival of a transport of Jews from Hungary. They also saw the room devoted to sorted looted property - shoes, bags, glasses and brushes - that in the camp jargon was called "Canada,” and visited the building of the first gas chamber and crematorium at Auschwitz I. Later, Trudeau and his group visited the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau and walked along the railway ramp where the Germans carried out the selection of the Jews. They also saw the ruins of the gas chamber and crematorium III. "Today we saw the possibilities of deliberate human cruelty and evil. Let us remember always this painful truth about ourselves,” Trudeau wrote in the guest book of the museum. Canada is among the 36 countries that supported the Perpetual Fund of Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, which finances the maintenance of authentic remains of the concentration camp. (J.Post)