Holocaust survivors return for memorial ceremony on 80th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
Our Europe correspondent Jon Henley is in Auschwitz today.
This is what he wrote in his report ahead of today’s event:
About 50 former inmates are expected to attend the ceremony at the complex in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered more than a million people, most of them Jews, but also Poles, Roma and Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war and gay people.
An audience including Britain’s King Charles III, King Felipe VI of Spain and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, as well as France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, and the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, will hear their voices.
Not a day goes by when I don’t think about my family. There are now Stolpersteine in front of our former family house, which are the closest thing I have to a gravestone where I can feel close to them.
I’m taken back to Auschwitz every day when I look in the mirror while washing my face and I see my tattoo.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jan/27/auschwitz-survivors-memorial-holocaust-ceremony-europe-latest-live-news
Author : Jakub Krupa
Publish date : 2025-01-27 08:28:33
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