Today is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
File photo of wreaths laid before a commemoration ceremony today at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Berlin Image: DPA/PA Images File photo of wreaths laid before a commemoration ceremony today at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Berlin Image: DPA/PA Images THE EMERGING TREND of a rise in extremist language and politics across Europe is “deeply worrying”, President Michael D Higgins said ahead of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz today.
“It would be a grievous error to consign the Holocaust or the lessons that should be learnt from it to a past that was assumed to be no longer relevant in our modern world.” More than 1.1 million people were killed in Auschwitz during the holocaust, nearly all of whom were Jewish.
“We cannot overestimate how important it is to educate ourselves about the Holocaust; to ensure that such an atrocity is never allowed to occur again. Hatred and prejudice have no place in today’s society,” Coveney said in a statement today.“I have no graves to go to and I know my parents were murdered here and burned. So this is how I pay homage to them,” said Yvonne Engelman, a 92-year-old who came from Australia, joined by three more generations now scattered around the globe.
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