Hundreds of people joined some two dozen Holocaust survivors, including several saved by German industrialist Oskar Schindler, in a march marking the 65th anniversary of the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto by the Nazis.

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

Roman Polanski, debuting his new film Oliver Twist in Prague this weekend, said he chose to do the new adaptation of the classic novel because he admired 19th-century English literature and wanted to make a movie his children would enjoy.

Roman Polanski has won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his film about the Holocaust, The Pianist.