Auschwitz survivors warn of history as memories die

Their numbers are diminished, but the voices of the Auschwitz survivors are still strong.

“We have been stripped of all humanity,” said Lyon Winterop, 99, who is the four oldest of those who spoke next to the notorious gateway to the Berkinaw Evotena camp.

On the occasion of 80 years of its liberation, world leaders and European kings rubbed on the shoulders on Monday with 56 survivors of the genocide of European Jews in Hitler.

“We were victims of an ethical vacuum,” said Touva Friedman, who described the witness of the horrors of the Nazi persecution as a five -and -a -half -year -old girl clinging to her mother’s hand.

“All of my young friends were brought closer and expelled until their death, while their parents’ sudden cries fell to two deaf ears.”

The warnings of history were clear: the survivors are more than anyone who understood the dangers of intolerance, and anti -Semitism was the canary in the coal mine.

In a huge white tent covering the entrance to the death camp, Leon Winterop appealed to young people to be “sensitive to all the expressions of intolerance and resentment of people who disagree.”

The Nazis killed 1.1 million people in Auschwitz-Birquinho between 1941 and 1945.

Nearly a million Jews, 70,000 Polish prisoners, 21,000 Rome, 15,000 prisoners in the Soviet war and an unknown number of gay men.

This was one of six death camps built by the Nazis in occupied Poland in 1942, and it was largely greater.

One of the other survivors of speaking was Janina Iwanska, 94, a Catholic who arrested him as a child during the Warsaw uprising in 1944. I remembered how the Nazi “Angel of Death” was committed to Joseph Mingling all the remaining Rome in the camp until her death in Berkinao, because he no longer needs them For his deadly medical experiences.

Marian Torski, 98, said only a few of them survived the death camp and now they were a handful. His ideas turned into millions of victims “who will never tell us what they suffered or felt, just because they consumed this mass destruction.”

The director of the Auschwitz Museum, Piotr Siinky, issued an appeal to protect the memory of what happened, as the survivors died.

He said: “Memory hurts me, memory helps, memory guides … without memory, you have no history, no experience, no reference.” .

The memory was the word monitoring of this day, which was marked all over the world on the international memorial day of the Holocaust.

Polish President Andrag Doda has pledged that Poland could have been entrusted with the memory of the six death camps on its territory, in Trilinka, Subur, Pelzik, Magdanic and Chilmeno.

Doda, after they put a wreath on the wall, where thousands of prisoners were executed in Auschwitz 1, the detention camp 3 kilometers (1.85 miles) from Berkinao: “We are the guardians of memory,” said Doda, after they put a wreath on the wall where thousands of prisoners were executed in Auschwitz 1, the detention camp 3 km (1.85 miles) from Berkenaw.

Away from the entrance to the Nazi death camp, at the United Nations in New York, Secretary -General Antonio Guterres said, “Remembering is not just an ethical work, but rather an invitation to work,” and warned the denial of the Holocaust was spreading and hatred was hateful of hate raised all over the world.

He referred to the Italian survivor, Primo Levy, who wrote his memories about the camps for future generations, but he was unable to bear the scars of what he witnessed. In the words of his surviving teammate Eli Wizel, Levy died in Auschwitz after 40 years.

Among those who traveled to southern Poland to commemorate Monday for the day that the Red Army Auschwitz from King Charles, King William Alexander, Queen Maxima Holland, King Felipe, Queen Letizia from Spain, Denmark Ferrick and Queen Mary.

Charles III became the first British Monark to serve Auschwitz, and can be seen as he wipes tears listening to the four survivors’ accounts.

While touring the camp, he put a wreath on the memory of the victims.

Sources close to the king said it was a deep visit to him, and one of the assistants described it as a “profound personal pilgrimage.”

Hours ago, he said he remembered the “evils of the past” that remained a “vital task”.

The king said about the visit of the Jewish Society Center in Krakow, which opened it 17 years ago, that the Krakow Jewish community was “born again” from the ashes of the Holocaust, and that building a nice and more sympathetic world for future generations was “sacred” important of us all.

The British survivor, born in Polish Mala Trimic, 94, was released from the Bergen Bilgen detention camp, and the Monday event was attended in Auschwitz.

“We have seen the consequences of camps, beating and hatred,” she told the BBC. “And what is taught (children) under the conditions of the tyrant can be very harmful, not only for them but everything around it. So we must really protect it.”

Lord Picks, the UK’s special envoy for post -Holocaust issues and head of the Holocaust Corporation, warned that “distortion” threatens the historical truth of the Holocaust.

After listening to the survivors inside the tent in Birkenau, BBC told, “We have seen a transmission from memory to history,” because the possibility that the survivors will transfer other speeches.

“This is very difficult and I do not think we are in the post -Holocaust world,” he added.

A survey across eight countries published last week indicated a widespread belief that another Holocaust could happen again. Anxiety was particularly high in the United States and the United Kingdom, according to wiping 1,000 people in each country for the demand conference.

Participated in additional reports from Laura Josie in London.