About 6 million European Jews and millions of other people were killed by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust. Some 1.5 million were children.
FILE - People are seen arriving at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi German death camp, where more than 1.1 million were murdered, in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 27, 2020. BRUSSELS — Holocaust survivors and politicians warned about the resurgence of antisemitism and Holocaust denial as the world remembered Nazi atrocities and commemorated the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on Thursday.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, and the Speaker of Israel's Knesset parliament Mickey Levy arrange wreaths on one of the concrete steles of Berlin's Holocaust memorial, on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, as part of the ceremonies on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. German parliament speaker Baerbel Bas noted that the coronavirus pandemic has acted “like an accelerant” to already burgeoning antisemitism.
In all, about 6 million European Jews and millions of other people were killed by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust. Some 1.5 million were children. Levy said that Israel and Germany experienced “an exceptional journey on the way to reconciliation and establishing relations and brave friendship between us.”Last of Soviet soldiers who liberated Auschwitz dies at 98: ‘Skeletons everywhere,’ he later described it
European Union lawmakers planned to observe a minute’s silence later Thursday and welcome centenarian Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlander. The 100-year-old was arrested in 1944 while on the run and brought to Theresienstadt, in what is now the Czech Republic. A year before, her mother and brother were deported to Auschwitz, where they were both killed.
“With each passing year, the Shoah inches towards becoming a historical event,” Michel said. “More and more distant, more and more abstract. Especially in the eyes of the younger generations of Europeans. This is why, paradoxically, the more the years go by, the more important the commemoration becomes. The more essential.”
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