Auschwitz-Birkenau was a place of evil in Nazi-occupied Poland where around 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered in the name of an ideology of hatred.
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Pope Francis Commemorates Victims of the Jewish Holocaust
27 Jan 2021
ROME Pope Francis recalled the Jewish Holocaust on Wednesday, warning against evil ideologies that lead to “death, extermination, and brutality.”
“Today, the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Extermination Camp of Auschwitz, we celebrate International Holocaust Remembrance Day,” the pope said, following his weekly General Audience, given from the library of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.
“We commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and all those persecuted and deported by the Nazi regime,” the pontiff continued.
“Remembrance is an expression of humanity. Remembrance is a sign of civilization. To remember is a condition for a better future of peace and fraternity,” he said, before warning that such atrocities never belong completely to the past.
January 28, 2021
CWN Editor s Note: “Today, the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Extermination Camp of Auschwitz, we celebrate International Holocaust Remembrance Day,” Pope Francis said at the conclusion of his January 27 general audience. “We commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and all those persecuted and deported by the Nazi regime . Remembrance also means being careful because these things can happen again, starting with ideological proposals that are intended to save a people and end up destroying a people and humanity.”
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