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Subscribe to RSSInternational Holocaust Remembrance day marks the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, on Jan. 27, 1945.
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Former prisoners stand in front of the monument commemorating victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau, former Nazi death camp during a ceremony marking 66 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex on January 27, 2011 in Oswiecim.
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Students pass a red rose at the Gleis 17 (Track 17) memorial at the train station Grunewald on the international Holocaust remembrance day in Berlin, Germany, on Thursday, on Jan. 27, 2011. From Oct. 1941 until Feb. 1945 the train station was one of the major sites of deportations of Berlin's Jewish community.
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A man walks along the Gleis 17 (Track 17) memorial with the name of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz at the train station Grunewald on the international Holocaust remembrance day in Berlin, Germany, on Thursday, on Jan. 27, 2011.
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A survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camps walk through the grounds of the Auschwitz I memorial and former concentration camp on the 66th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 2011 in Oswiecim, Poland. Auschwitz was the biggest Nazi concentration camp during World War II and is infamous for its gas chambers where hundreds of thousands of Jews and other victims were murdered.
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People visit the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on January 27, 2011.
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A visitor views the Hall of Names in the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on January 27, 2011.
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People gather in front of a monument at the site of the World War II Nazi concentration camp of Sajmiste, where some 48,000 Jews, Serbs and Roma perished, in Belgrade, Serbia, on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011.
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my whole family was murdered at this place called auschwitz-birkenau.Only my mother survived this hell on earth.We must never forget what happened here.We must always guard against how easily humans can turn into in human killing machines.My mother has only asked me one favor ever and that was do not let them do this to us again.As long as I am alive NEVER AGAIN means never again no matter what:::::::::
I bow my head in respect- and rememberence...
May auschwitz rot in hell and all who served it.
The human race has been lead by our many and various god's as well as the devil himself. Let us all be cognizant of the difference. May God bless all the victims and their families.
this is areminder what man can do to man
We honor the memory of those who perished in this nadir of the human spirit. Let us also celebrate the courage and committment of those heroic survivors. Their resolve will never allow time to abate the horror of this atrocity from our collective conscience.
This makes me so sad. I, too, honor those who perished.
This is an antrocity that should never be forgotten and a memory that this could happen again...countries after this still have created crimes against their peoples and acts of genocide. This must never happen again. Perhaps letting it decay would be for the best but not letting the memories and history decay would be the most important feature....ther is a memorial built..just like in New York for 9/11 .. but history should not and cannot repeat itself with a devil man like Hitler and his followers...this is something that should remain in books and minds forever...
We must constantly remember and teach to the generations to come what happened at these hell camps. God bless those survivors and may we honor them by remembering. For those who have passed on - may they sleep with the angels.
Auchswitz and other abominations like it are born of hatred and intolerance. We, as a global nation of human beings, must be guardians against this sort of horror in the future by teaching our children that we can respect and live with people who are different from ourselves. I have paid my respects to the dead at Auchswitz and Dachau , the killing fields of Cambodia and, on a smaller scale, Ground Zero. These places, where so many uselessly died, must stand monument to our refusal to repeat such atrocities. We must teach our children to disagree but not hate and to debate not kill. That is the responsibility the living owe the dead. Rest in Peace victims of the Holocaust we will not forget.
Despite growing up in Miami, having many Jewish friends and babysitting for several Jewish families, until the age of 12, I had never heard of the Holocaust. While babysitting one night I went looking for something to read and there on the bookshelf was a book entitled, "The Murderers Among Us", by, I believe, Simon Weisenthaul. I read the entire book before the parents came home that night. When they found me with the book they were actually frightened. They were affraid my parents would be angry that they had left the book where I could find it. I went home that night and told my mother what I had read and asked, "Why have I never heard about this before?", her answer, "It's so horrible most people just want to forget about it". When I asked another Jewish family about why in all the years our families had known one another, this terrible crime had never come up. Their answer was the same as my mother's. That was in the mid-sixties. A few years later stories about Simon Weisenthaul and other "Nazi hunter" brought the subject to light and things began to change and people began to open up about what happened in Europe from 1933 to 1945. I truly believe that we, the non-Jews of this world need to keep the light on the atrocities done at Auchswitz, Dachau and all the other places of horror. Lest We Forget.