Survivors return as world remembers Auschwitz 80 years after liberation

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Posted on 01/26/2025 1:36:24 PM PST by RandFan

About 50 survivors of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau will return to the site on Monday to remember the day it was finally liberated on 27 January 1945.

They will be joined by heads of state including King Charles and other European royalty, Emmanuel Macron of France and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

But it will be the survivors - most in their late 80s and 90s - not the dignitaries, whose voices will be heard during the commemorations at the camp, where 1.1 million people were murdered, most of them Jews.

Their message is to tell the world what happened here and ensure that it never happens again.

"Every soul on this earth has the right to live," says Jona Laks, who is now 94 and arrived with her twin and elder sisters in 1944. "Auschwitz was a laboratory for killing people. This was its task and it proved itself: few survived Auschwitz."

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Laks was saved only because her elder sister shouted out that she should not be separated from her twin and word reached the infamous Nazi "Angel of Death" at the camp, Josef Mengele, who used part of Birkenau for often deadly medical experiments on twins.

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Thank you very much and God bless you.

Crazy to think 80 years ago (within a life time) what went on.

1 posted on 01/26/2025 1:36:24 PM PST by RandFan

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