Auschwitz survivors and leaders reflect on its liberation 80 years ago, urging the world to remember and unite against rising hatred.
Survivors and world leaders gather at Auschwitz, urging global unity against hatred on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation.
Auschwitz was the largest of the extermination camps and has become a symbol of Nazi Germany’s genocide of six million Jews, one million of whom died at the site between 1940 and 1945, along with more than 100,000 non-Jews. According to organisers, four former inmates — Marian Turski, Janina Iwanska, Tova Friedman, and Leon Weintraub — will speak at the main event.‘I would do it again’: Janusz Waluś on killing Chris Hani and Derby-Lewis’ alleged meeting with Zuma
‘I will never forget or forgive’: Holocaust survivor recalls dread of nightly list of deportees to death camps There has also been controversy following rumours that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could attend the ceremony.
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