A drunken man from Kuwait, claiming he had a bomb, briefly held three Jewish teenagers captive today in their room in a Polish hotel where they were staying for Holocaust commemoration ceremonies, police said.

BLUE and white Israeli flags fluttered in the afternoon breeze as thousands marched in silence yesterday between two former Nazi death camps in Poland, paying homage to the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust.

BLUE and white Israeli flags fluttered in the afternoon breeze as thousands marched in silence yesterday between two former Nazi death camps in Poland, paying homage to the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust.

Thousands of people were expected at the site of the Auschwitz death camp today to remember the victims of the Holocaust with a solemn annual march.