‘Memory hurts, memory guides’: Auschwitz survivors mark anniversary with warnings over rising antisemitism
Elderly former inmates gather for perhaps final time and urge vigilance against resurgent European far right
On a day of startling blue skies, Auschwitz survivors stood before princes and presidents on Monday to remind the world, perhaps for the final time, of the horrors they suffered there during one of the darkest moments of human history.
Beneath a white marquee erected in front of the gate to the former Nazi death camp, four former inmates – the youngest 86, the oldest 99 – warned world leaders on the 80th anniversary of its liberation against the danger of rising antisemitism.
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