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Auschwitz survivors to return after 75 years for memorial ceremony
Posted on 1/27/20 at 6:51 am
Posted on 1/27/20 at 6:51 am
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Auschwitz survivors to return after 75 years for memorial ceremony
LINK - The Guardian
More than 200 survivors are to gather at the former Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz, many probably for the final time, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its liberation.
As rows over the make-up of the international guest list at the memorial ceremony threatened to overshadow Monday’s event, survivors who drew on harrowing memories of their incarceration warned the lessons from the atrocities sanctioned by Adolf Hitler’s administration and carried out often by ordinary Germans were in danger of being forgotten.
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The survivors in attendance are aged between 75 – a woman who was born in the camp – and 101. They have travelled from all over the world, mainly North America and across Europe, Israel, South and Central America and Australia. Organisers said the precise number of attendees would not be confirmed until the actual ceremony on Monday afternoon, due to their often fragile health conditions, and the psychological strain of returning, which had already led to some cancellations. A large team of 50 therapists and medics are on hand to attend to the survivors and their also often elderly offspring
This post was edited on 1/27/20 at 7:06 am
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Posted on 1/27/20 at 6:53 am to dewster
Long time
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Posted on 1/27/20 at 6:56 am to dewster
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Lenga, who was 17 when he entered the camp in summer 1944, survived in part by making woollen jackets for SS guards out of camp blankets, for which he received extra food rations. He later went on to become a successful tailor in Beverly Hills. He said he had refused to let the Holocaust define his life, despite the fact it claimed 98 members of his family, with him and his father the only two to survive.
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Angela Orosz, 75, from Montreal, stood in front of former red-brick barracks and recalled her mother’s account of giving birth to her in secret on a top bunk in Auschwitz-Birkenau in December 1944. "Because my mother had probably survived because of the peelings she had eaten and the goodness in them, she had been able to give birth to me and so I had survived, so of course the survival instinct I inherited from her made me always do the same.”
Contrast these anecdotes to the snowflakes we have today. These older generation folks are dying out and I'm worried we won't have people with enough stones to replace them.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 7:05 am to dewster
If I went through what they did, there's no way I'd set foot in that place again.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 8:12 am to dewster
I still to this day can't believe what possessed the Nazis (the SS in particular) to treat human beings the way they did.
They couldn't all have been evil SOB's?
They couldn't all have been evil SOB's?
Posted on 1/27/20 at 9:22 am to dewster
I would love the opportunity to sit down and talk with a survivor for like 30 minutes and hear their stories
Posted on 1/27/20 at 11:34 am to dewster
A interesting read is the autobiography of Rudolf Hoess, the long term commandant of Auschwitz, who was asked by Polish authorities to write his memoir while in prison, before he was hanged on the grounds of Auschwitz I camp in 1947
This post was edited on 1/27/20 at 6:22 pm
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:48 pm to dewster
Posted on 1/29/20 at 8:09 am to dewster
Wasn't there a group (and maybe even Iran) claiming the holocaust never happened?
Posted on 1/29/20 at 8:30 am to dewster
An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished in WWII.
I do not hold the 6 million Jews in any special reverence above the other 64-79 million who died.
The others who died are just as dead.
Horrible war. Too bad we seemed not to have learned a damn thing from it. At least WWIII will be over in about an hour. The rebuild may take a few hundred years, but the war will be quick.
I do not hold the 6 million Jews in any special reverence above the other 64-79 million who died.
The others who died are just as dead.
Horrible war. Too bad we seemed not to have learned a damn thing from it. At least WWIII will be over in about an hour. The rebuild may take a few hundred years, but the war will be quick.
Posted on 1/29/20 at 8:52 am to dewster
I don’t think I’d ever want to return to a place that harbored such evil memories.
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