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Holocaust survivors fear Europe is forgetting the lessons of Auschwitz

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Auschwitz after the liberation of the camp in January 1945

“Seeing a concentration camp with my eyes and listening to one of the survivors that everything has passed, this is what really brought him home. It is important for young people like me. We will soon be able to vote. The extreme right extends more and more support in Germany and we need to learn from the past “.

As a 17 -year -old German student. I met him at an educational center for the Holocaust in Dushau, in southern Germany, just around the corner than one day the Nazi concentration camp of the same name. He and his colleagues were spending two days there, learning about the Nazi past of their country and discussing its importance in today’s world.

The eighteen -year -old Melik admitted that she did not know much about the Holocaust before coming to Dushau. She said that listening to Eva Omlouf, the survivor, spoke of what happened, touched her heart.

She was hoping that racism and not tolerance would talk repeatedly. “I wear the veil and often people refuse. We need to know more about each other so that we can live well together.”

Miguel has warned of increasing racism and anti -Semitism on social media platforms, including jokes about the Holocaust. “We need to prevent this,” his 17 -year -old friend Ida faded.

“We are the last generation that can meet and listen to the people who survived the tragedy. We have to make sure that everyone is aware of stopping anything of that such as happening again.”

They are serious and hope. Some may say naive.

Here in Europe, 80 years after the end of the Holocaust, societies seem to be increasingly divided. There is a rise in supporting political parties, often, but not exclusively on the far right and left, rushing to refer to the other. Outside. Unwanted. Whether they are immigrants, Muslims, gay or Jews.

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EVA UMLAUF speaks to students in Dachau

“I want everyone to live together, Jewish, Catholic, black, white or anything else,” says Eva Omlouf, a survivor of the Holocaust who left such an impression on German teenagers.

Holocaust describes it as a warning to what can happen when it takes care of.

“For this reason, I devote my time to speaking, talking and speaking,” she says. Now in her eighties, she was the youngest prisoner to be released from the Nazi Annual Camp, Auschwitz, eight decades before this Monday. I wrote a book on her experiences, as well as working as a child psychiatrist, often talking about death camps and anti -Semitism, to the masses at home and abroad.

“Death Mills” is the title of the American Ministry of War film, which appears to German civilians after the war, which was released from the Allied shots that were captured when editing the concentration camps around 300 managed by the Nazis and their allies between 1933 and 1945.

Naked bone people, with fleshy shave heads and eyes, mixing and stumbling in the camera. One man invalidates the bone of the body, clearly desperate to food. Piles of corpses are scattered in all angles. Forever comic faces in open screams.

While you are in Warehouse after Warehouse, you see the golden teeth called carefully, reading and shoes that belong to men, women and children killed. Pack of hair shaved from the prisoners, packed and ready for sale for Nazi profit.

“My body remembers what my opinion forgot”

The Nazis used concentration and death camps to make slaves and genocide for people who are considered “enemies for the sheikhs” or simply “Untermenschen” (Subhumans). These included, among other things: ethnic columns, Rome, Soviet war prisoners, persons with disabilities, while others are homosexual and the largest goal ever: European Jews.

In total, six million Jews were killed in what became known as the Holocaust. The numbers were calculated based on Nazi documents and demographic data before and after the war.

The legal term “genocide” was formulated and recognized as an international crime, following the world’s awareness of the extent of the Nazi mass killing, which continued with enthusiasm even while losing the war. It refers to actions committed with the intention of destruction, completely or partially, a national, ethnic, racist or religious group.

Auschwitz may be the most famous Nazi camp. Its horrors have become symbolized by the Holocaust as a whole. 1.1 million people were killed, among them, a million Jews. Most of them were used collectively in the gas rooms. Their bodies were burned in a great Holocaust. The ash granted to local farmers for use in their fields.

“I was very young to realize much of what was happening in Auschwitz,” Eva told students. “But what I forget my opinion, remembers my body.”

Adolescents listened with interest. No one or a peek on their smartphones, and Eva explained that she had the A-26959 number with a blue ink on her arm.

It was a forced tattoo part of the “operation” for every prisoner who arrived in Auschwitz, who was not immediately gas to death and instead he was chosen for the forced work or medical experience.

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Miguel, Melik and Martha spent two days in Dushau to get to know the Nazi past of their country

“Why did they choose tattoos a two -year -old?” Eva asks. She says she finds only one answer to this question: “Super humans” – the Nazis believes that they are creating a superior race – he did not think that the Jews were human.

“We were mice, without humans, were completely ignored through this main race. So it was not important if you were two years old, or 80 years.”

Recalin the shock that she inherited from her young mother, the loss of every family member by the Holocaust and the feeling of the unit she felt after the war as a little girl without a grandmother for her hug or baking cakes with her, Eva begins to cry silently. Especially when you play a video clip recently in the annual “Living March” in Auschwitz, where the survivors walk alongside young people from all over Europe, with a talisman “never again.”

While watching it, a number of teenagers in Eva fans are also rolling.

But a short drive away, at the center of the Jewish community in Munich, which is guarded by the armed police, says Charlotte Nublouch, head of the Jewish community, says how worried about anti -Semitism in the modern era.

She was born in the early thirties of the twentieth century, remember Mrs. Nubluc ’carrying the hand of her father and watching the windows of the Jewish store shattered and continued from fire on Crystalchest, the night of the broken glass in November 1938, when the Nazi regime carried out mass violence against Jews and Jews property, while most Germans are not Jews Either they chanted or looked at the other direction.

She says that anti -Semitism has never disappeared after the war, but she did not believe that things would become worrying again as they are now. Even in Germany, she says, which did historically to confront her Nazi past and be alert against anti -Semitism.

It is a confirmation supported by members of the Jewish community in Germany and other places they say they are now afraid to wear David’s star in public places and prefer not to hand over a Jewish newspaper to their homes, for fear of describing it as a “Jew” by a Jew “their neighbors.

Studies conducted by the Community Security Fund in the UK and the European Union Basic Law Agency tell the same story. FRA says 96 % of the Jews who were interviewed in 13 European countries indicate the exposure of anti -Semitism in daily life.

Jewish societies in South America notice a significant increase in anti -Semitism as well, while in Canada, the synagogue was deprived a few weeks ago and there was a shooting accident in a Jewish school. In the United States last summer, the Jewish graves were desecrated in the city of Cincinnati.

Former President Joe Biden has identified the global high anti -Semitism as a source of concern for foreign policy. The Diboras Lepstad Academy, whose private envoy was to monitor and combat this, highlights anti -Semitism via the Internet – often with the phobia of Islam and other forms of discrimination – which it says is manipulated by external actors such as Russia, Iran and China to cultivate the division in society and in addition to Their goals and messages.

It also talks about a global rise in anti -Semitism after Israel’s military response in Gaza, which killed tens of thousands of Palestinians – after the 1200 -year -old Hamas massacre inside Israel on October 7, 2023.

Think that things will be different in 2025. “

Professor Lepstad says that Israel’s military actions are often blamed on the Jewish people in general. She says that all Jews cannot take responsibility for the decisions of the government of Israel. This is racism.

Amadeu Antonio, which collects information about anti -Semitic incidents in Germany, is telling an incident last month as writing on red walls in the church and the city council in the town of Langino, and called both to boycott Israel and the area of ​​Jewish gas – a reference to Nazi gas rooms In the Holocaust.

Auschwitz and Holocaust did not start with poison gas. Their roots were in the other for the Jews who dated centuries in Europe.

Gady Gronich, CEO of the European Rabbish conference, warns that targeting minorities is now prevalent. He says that the Islamic community carries the greatest burden at the present time, he says, he also describes himself as shocking at the levels of anti -Semitism he sees.

He thinks about 80 years of World War II, and some of them intentionally chooses to leave the Holocaust and responsibility for learning from it in the past.

But the past will not be silent. Close to the Polish city of Gdansk, under snow -covered leaves covering the floor of the forests, still finds the remains of neglected shoes, which belong to the Holocaust victims.

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The remnants of the neglected shoes that belong to the Holocaust victims can be seen near the previous Tastuf camp in Stutthof

There is a very small interior, partially buried under the ground, the owners of the murdered should be young children. Sew on some parts of the skin are still clear to see. Millions of shoes were sent here to a leather factory, run by slaves work at the time of the Tasmaz camp.

The shoes came from all over a Nazi region. But mainly, it is believed, from Auschwitz.

“For me, these shoes scream. They shout: We were alive 80 years ago!” Polish music Grzegorz Kwiatkowski tells me. He has long been active to rescue and display shoes, along with others in the camp museum. Gregor says the shoe message is hostile to war and anti -discrimination. It should be heard.

“These shoes belong to people. You know, our shoes can be, right? Your shoes, shoes, wife shoes, or my son’s shoes. These shoes require attention, not only to preserve them, but to change ourselves (as human beings) in an ethical way .

The anniversary of this year is seen for the editing of Auschwitz as especially important. It is possible that the last great anniversary in which eyewitnesses and survivors will be alive to tell us what happened – and to ask us: What do we remember today and which lessons that we have already forgotten?

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2025-01-26 00:10:00

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