Germany Auschwitz survivors share personal memories
Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, survivors are sharing their personal memories in video messages.
13.01.2025, 10:14
13.01.2025, 10:15
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The contributions will be published on social media and on the website of the Jewish Claims Conference, as the non-profit organization announced.
The campaign is called "I Survived Auschwitz: Remember This". More than 80 survivors of the Shoah speak about their experiences. Some survivors want the world to remember close members of their family who were murdered in Auschwitz, according to the press release. According to the statement, others talk about towns where they lived before their persecution and whose Jewish lives were irretrievably destroyed during the Shoah.
"An evil that no human being should ever have to endure"
"The horrors that took place in Auschwitz were an evil that no human being should ever endure, but also an evil that no human being should ever forget," declared the President of the Claims Conference, Gideon Taylor.
On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the survivors of the German extermination camp in occupied Poland. The Nazis had murdered more than a million people there, most of them Jews. The date has been observed as Holocaust Remembrance Day in Germany since 1996, and the United Nations proclaimed the date a day of remembrance in 2005.
