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On Thursday, Irene Shashar, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto, addressed MEPs in a plenary session in Brussels to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Holocaust survivor Irene Shashar recalled the moment she witnessed her father’s death two years before the Second World War began, at the hands of Nazi party members. She addressed lawmakers at the EU Parliament in Brussels to mark Holocaust Memorial Day on Thursday, 25 January. “We heard bloodcurdling screams coming in the direction of our cramped apartment. My mother yanked my little arm and took off running in the direction of the screams,” the 86-year-old said. She described seeing a thick crowd of people surround her apartment in Warsaw, Poland, before seeing her father’s body “sprawled” on the kitchen floor. She and her mother escaped the ghetto and hid for the rest of the war. In 2023, she published her he published her biography ‘I won against Hitler.’
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola has paid a moving tribute to the victims of the Holocaust. The Parliament’s head also reaffirmed what she called its “unwavering commitment against antisemitism, racism and other forms of hate. Europe remembers.” The MEP was speaking on 25 January in Brussels to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Warning that the […]