to 79. there are more that 4,000 cases since the outbreak began in october. and today is international holocaust remembrance day which also marks the anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz death camp. it s a time to honor the 6 million jews killed by the nazis whose other victims are the minorities, disabled, lgbtq+. the second gentleman is visiting places in germany and my grandfather was in auschwitz. a big day in terms of memories. u.s. president joe biden released a statement reading as we join nations around the world in bearing witness to this dark chapter in our shared history, we also honor survivors and their stories pledging to always remember and keep faith with that sacred vau. never again. you re watching cnn newsroom live from london. we ll see you after the short break.
there won t be even any. i said you know what i said to him? i don t think. if i had it right here, i wouldn t take it off. i did nothing wrong. and i want the world to know. from the very beginning, i had this thing, this innerfeeling the world has to know what happened. they have to know. you can t kill, destroy so many souls, children and elderly. it would be silent. and then i didn t want to forget those people. i used to say to in my head i ll remember you. i ll remember you. what is extraordinary is that you have pursued this remembrance, even though when you went through the experience of not just auschwitz, but life in the ghetto in poland, before auschwitz, you were a tiny child.
that is meaningful because why am i saved if i m wasting it? so, most of the people that i personally know except my mother the survivor s guilt was. ..to give something back to society for having been saved. that s the people. my mother, though, was not interested in anything. and what about jewishness? after all of this experience, where you, yourfamily, your people were murdered en masse, for you personally, you know, that question so many jews who survived asked themselves, you know, where was god in auschwitz? did you have an answer for that and did yourjewishness become more important? i have no answer. i didn t know anything. i didn t know whatjewish was.
president vuchich said he would take all measures to protect his nation. ethnic serbs in northern kosovo have been demanding the release of a former serbian police officer. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. never has it felt more important to remember the lessons of the greatest crime of the 20th century, the nazi genocide of thejews. europe is again witnessing a war of aggression, anti semitism is on the rise and young people, according to the surveys, have an alarming level of ignorance about the holocaust. well, my guest today is tova friedman, one of the youngest survivors of the auschwitz death camp. now in her 80s, she s written