Auschwitz survivors warned of the dangers of rising antisemitism, as world leaders gathered to mark 80 years since the Nazi German death camp was liberated.
Survivors of a notorious Nazi death camp have warned a global rise in antisemitism was laying fertile ground for another Holocaust, as world leaders gathered to mark 80 years since Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the Soviet Army.
“Let us oppose the conspiracy theories saying all the evil of this world results from a plot started by some indefinite social groups, and Jews are often mentioned as one such group,” he said. Tova Friedman, an 86-year-old survivor, recalled the horror of watching girls being taken to the gas chambers, “crying and shivering” as they walked barefoot in the snow.
The wall, flanked on one side by a building in which SS physicians conducted gruesome and often fatal experiments on female inmates, is where prisoners and Polish resistance fighters were executed by the Nazis. Bullet holes are still visible.
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