Tomorrow, Tuesday 1/27/15, on the 70th anniversary of the Allied liberation of Auschwitz, we will remember and mourn the tragic loss of life that occurred there with our Jewish neighbors and friends. https://youtube/watch?v=Ho5zuuhDoMg https://youtube/watch?v=zIReMOOBFy8 theguardian/world/2015/jan/27/barack-obama-to-miss-ceremony-marking-the-liberation-of-auschwitz Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest and deadliest of the 20,000 concentration camps established by the Germans during World War II in Europe as part of their effort to exterminate the Jewish people. It was located in Poland, next to the Polish town of Oswiecim. It consisted of a network of camps that included concentration, forced labor and extermination facilities. About 1.1 million people perished at Auschwitz, of which about 90 percent were Jews. Auschwitz, like other concentration camps, was a key element of the so-called “ The Final Solution of the Jewish Question ”. In these camps, the Germans not only took the lives of hundreds of thousands of Jews and others, they also took everything else. Auschwitz had special facilities and personnel to store and sort all the valuables from the victims, from shoes to gold teeth extracted from the corpses of the victims. More than six decades after the Holocaust, the horrors of Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur are sobering reminders that preventing future genocides and mass atrocities remains an enormous challenge. Yet genocide is not the inevitable result of ancient hatreds or irrational leaders. As we learn more about the risk factors, warning signs, and triggering events that have led to it in the past, we are also learning ways to prevent it in the future. Thus, the international community faces an ongoing challenge in protecting the rights to freedom of opinion and expression while also combating incitement to genocide and preventing violence based on hatred. This work never ceases, it will span the generations so let us start.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 03:31:10 +0000
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