Holocaust survivors and their relatives take part in the 78th anniversary of liberation of Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Oswiecim, Poland January 27, 2023. Le Monde with AP Published on January 27, 2023, at 4:30 pm (Paris) Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky marked the day commemorating the liberation of the Nazi German death camp by alluding to his own country's situation. Their fate was only publicly recognized decades after the end of World War II.Įlsewhere in the world on Friday events were planned to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an annual commemoration established by a United Nations resolution in 2005.Ībout 6 million European Jews were killed in the Holocaust and millions more were killed in the global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945.Holocaust Memorial Day: Auschwitz-Birkenau anniversary marked as peace again shattered by war Thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual people were incarcerated and killed by the Nazis. The German parliament was holding a memorial event focused this year on those who were persecuted for their sexual orientation. “We recall our historic responsibility on Holocaust Memorial Day so that our Never Again endures in future,” he wrote on Twitter. The Germans established Auschwitz in 1940 for Polish prisoners later they expanded the complex, building death chambers and crematoria where Jews from across Europe were brought by train to be murdered. flag's colors and the words: “From the people of the United States of America." officials, bowed his head an execution wall at Auschwitz, where he left a wreath of flowers in the U.S. Emhoff, the first Jewish person to be married to one of the top two nationally elected U.S. She was washed in cold water, wrapped in rags and subjected to medical experiments.Īmong those who attended Friday's commemorations was Doug Emhoff, the husband of U.S. She said when she was born she was so tiny that the Nazis tattooed her number - 89136 - on her thigh. Edith Eger speaks about "The Gift," her book that mentions grief as a force for positive change, inspired by her story surviving the Auschwitz concentration camp, and her healing process from the trauma.Īnother, Stefania Wernik, who was born at Auschwitz in November 1944, less than three months before its liberation, spoke of Auschwitz being a “hell on earth.” A little girl was sitting next to me, hugging a doll to her chest," Bartnikowski, now 90, said.īartnikowski was among several survivors of Auschwitz who spoke about their experiences to journalists on the eve of Friday's commemorations.ĭr. “It was literally a blow to the head for me because I suddenly saw, after almost 80 years, what I had seen in a freight car when I was being transported to Auschwitz. He was stunned seeing a little girl in a large crowd of refugees holding her mother with one hand and grasping a teddy bear in the other. An evil that touched also our country with the infamy of the racial laws of 1938.”īogdan Bartnikowski, a Pole who was 12 years old when he was transported to Auschwitz, said the first images he saw on television last February of refugees fleeing after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine triggered traumatic memories. Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, whose Brothers of Italy party has its roots in the post-Word War II neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, called the Holocaust “the abyss of humanity. That is why it is so important that everyone who values life should show determination when it comes to saving those whom hatred seeks to destroy.” "Indifference and hatred are always capable of creating evil together only. “We know and remember that indifference kills along with hatred,” he said in a social media post. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the event, alluding to his own country's situation. This year, no Russian official at all was invited due to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, according to the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum. Russian President Vladimir Putin attended observances marking the 60th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in 2005. The Claims Conference, an organization that seeks restitution for victims of the Holocaust, launched a social media campaign explaining the speech and words that were said prior to the Nazi-led genocide of millions of people, including 6 million Jewish people.
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