Commemoration of Ljubelj liberation warns against spread of hatred

Ljubelj, 12 June - A ceremony marking on Saturday the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the labour camp below Ljubelj Pass, a branch of the Mauthausen concentration camp, heard warnings of the dangers of the spread of hatred and history repeating itself.

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A ceremony marking the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Ljubelj labour camp with keynote speaker being criminal law expert Dragan Petrovec (pictured).
Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

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A ceremony marking the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Ljubelj labour camp, a subcamp of Mauthausen and the only such WWII camp in the Slovenian lands.
Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

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A ceremony marking the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Ljubelj labour camp with keynote speaker being criminal law expert Dragan Petrovec (pictured).
Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

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A ceremony marking the 76th anniversary of the Ljubelj labour camp liberation, held by Tržič, the Coordination Committee on War Victims of ZZB NOB Slovenije, and the Tržič branch of the WWII veterans organisation ZZB NOB.
Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

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A ceremony marking the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Ljubelj labour camp with one of the speakers being Sonja Vrščaj, a survivor of Auschwitz (pictured).
Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

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A new exhibition on the Ljubelj labour camp where some 2,000 prisoners of 13 European nationalities experienced the horrors of WWII.
Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

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A new exhibition on the Ljubelj labour camp and its prisoners during WWII opens in the Tržič museum on the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the camp.
Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

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A new exhibition on the Ljubelj labour camp and its prisoners during WWII opens in the Tržič museum on the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the camp.
Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

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A wreath-laying ceremony at the J'accuse memorial on the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Ljubelj labour camp.
Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

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A wreath-laying ceremony at the J'accuse memorial on the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Ljubelj labour camp.
Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

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President Borut Pahor lays a wreath at the J'accuse memorial on the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Ljubelj labour camp.
Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

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