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Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau have commemorated the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp in the final months of the Second World W.
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Surviving children of the Auschwitz concentration camp show their tattoos in January 1945, January 15, 1945. (Screen capture: Auschwitz by Soviet film director Elizaveta Svilova via AFP)
WARSAW, Poland The more than 200,000 children killed by Nazi Germany at Auschwitz were honored on Wednesday in online ceremonies marking the liberation of the camp which has come to symbolize the Holocaust.
Survivors sounded the alarm over the modern-day dangers posed by the resurgence of racism, anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial at a 76th anniversary event.
“Do not let us down,” Auschwitz survivor, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, now 95, said in an appeal to young people for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Auschwitz Child Victims Honoured 76 Years On
01/27/21 AT 1:13 PM
The more than 200,000 children killed by Nazi Germany at Auschwitz were honoured on Wednesday in online ceremonies marking the liberation of the camp which has come to symbolise the Holocaust.
Survivors sounded the alarm over the modern-day dangers posed by the resurgence of racism, anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial at a 76th anniversary event. Do not let us down, Auschwitz survivor, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, now 95, said in an appeal to young people for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Do not allow the memory to be distorted and poisoned by the ugly resurgence of xenophobia and anti-Semitism.