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Israel's Peres pays homage to victims at Nazi death camp

Israel's Polish-born President Shimon Peres on Monday remembered the hundreds of thousands of Jews murdered by occupying Nazi Germans during World War II at Poland's Treblinka death camp.
Peres and his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski lit candles at the memorial to the 800,000 people murdered at Treblinka, 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of the capital Warsaw.
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