{"id":545069,"date":"2023-01-27T23:04:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T20:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/auschwitz-anniversary-marked-as-peace-again-shattered-by-war\/"},"modified":"2023-01-27T23:04:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T20:04:44","slug":"auschwitz-anniversary-marked-as-peace-again-shattered-by-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/auschwitz-anniversary-marked-as-peace-again-shattered-by-war\/","title":{"rendered":"#Auschwitz anniversary marked as peace again shattered by war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bbbc0d3c13\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bbbc0d3c13\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/auschwitz-anniversary-marked-as-peace-again-shattered-by-war\/#Auschwitz_anniversary_marked_as_peace_again_shattered_by_war\" >Auschwitz anniversary marked as peace again shattered by war<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Auschwitz_anniversary_marked_as_peace_again_shattered_by_war\"><\/span>Auschwitz anniversary marked as peace again shattered by war<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) \u2014 Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners commemorated the 78th anniversary Friday of the Nazi German death camp&#8217;s liberation, some expressing horror that war has again shattered peace in Europe and the lesson of Never Again is being forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>The former concentration and extermination camp is located in the town of O\u015bwi\u0119cim in southern Poland, which was under the occupation of German forces during World War II and became a place of systematic murder of Jews, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma and others targeted for elimination by Adolf Hitler and his henchmen.<\/p>\n<p>In all, some 1.1 million people were killed at the vast complex before it was liberated by Soviet troops on Jan. 27, 1945.<\/p>\n<p>Today the site, with its barracks, barbed wire and ruins of gas chambers, stands as one of the world&#8217;s most recognized symbols of evil and a site of pilgrimage for millions.<\/p>\n<p>Jewish and Christian prayers for the dead were recited at the memorial site, which lies only 300 kilometers (185 miles) from Ukraine, where Russian aggression is creating death and destruction \u2014 a conflict on the minds of many this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStanding here today at this place of remembrance, Birkenau, I follow with horror the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> from the east that the Russian army, which liberated us here, is waging a war there in Ukraine. Why? Why?&#8221; lamented survivor Zdzis\u0142awa W\u0142odarczyk during observances Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Piotr Cywinski, Auschwitz state museum director, compared Nazi crimes to those the Russians have committed in Ukrainian towns like Bucha and Mariupol. He said they were inspired by a \u201csimilar sick megalomania&#8221; and that free people must not remain indifferent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing silent means giving voice to the perpetrators,\u201d Cywinski said. \u201cRemaining indifferent is tantamount to condoning murder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin attended observances marking the 60th anniversary of the camp\u2019s liberation in 2005. This year, no Russian official was invited due to the attack on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Valentina Matvienko, speaker of Russia&#8217;s upper house of parliament, deplored that as a \u201ccynical\u201d move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey refused to invite the liberators so that they could pay tribute to the memory of the victims,\u201d she said. \u201cOf course, this is very worrying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Berl Lazar, one of Russia\u2019s two chief rabbis, said not having any Russian invitees was \u201ca humiliation for sure, because we perfectly know and remember the role of the Red Army\u201d in the liberation of Auschwitz.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the event in a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> post, alluding to his own country&#8217;s situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know and remember that indifference kills along with hatred,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Indifference and hatred are always capable of creating evil together only. That is why it is so important that everyone who values \u200b\u200blife should show determination when it comes to saving those whom hatred seeks to destroy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli teacher, Yossi Michal, paying tribute to the victims with a teachers union delegation, said it was important to remember the past, and while he said what is h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening in Ukraine is terrible, he felt each case is unique and they shouldn&#8217;t be compared.<\/p>\n<p>Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, whose Brothers of Italy party has its roots in the post-Word War II neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, called the Holocaust \u201cthe abyss of humanity. An evil that touched also our country with the infamy of the racial laws of 1938.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bogdan Bartnikowski, a Pole who was 12 when he was transported to Auschwitz, said the first images he saw on television last February of refugees fleeing Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine triggered traumatic memories.<\/p>\n<p>He was stunned seeing a little girl in a large crowd of refugees holding her mother with one hand and grasping a teddy bear in the other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was literally a blow to the head for me because I suddenly saw, after almost 80 years, what I had seen in a freight car when I was being transported to Auschwitz. A little girl was sitting next to me, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-government-world-news-europe-berlin-be781e7b8b60461af9a757821dad059f\" data-ylk=\"slk:hugging a doll\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">hugging a doll <\/a> to her chest,&#8221; Bartnikowski, now 91, said.<\/p>\n<p>Bartnikowski was among several survivors of Auschwitz who spoke about their experiences to journalists Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Another, Stefania Wernik, who was born at Auschwitz in November 1944, less than three months before its liberation, spoke of Auschwitz being a \u201chell on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said when she was born she was so tiny that the Nazis tattooed her number \u2014 89136 \u2014 on her thigh. She was washed in cold water, wrapped in rags and subjected to medical experiments.<\/p>\n<p>And yet her mother had abundant milk, and they both survived. After the war, her mother returned home and reunited with her husband, and \u201cthe whole village came to look at us and said it&#8217;s a miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She appealed for \u201cno more fascism, which brings death, genocide, crimes, slaughter and loss of human dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among those <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-california-kamala-harris-krakow-5df2f0afab4d7dbb7752124f13ca17ef\" data-ylk=\"slk:who attended Friday's commemorations\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">who attended Friday&#8217;s commemorations<\/a> was Doug Emhoff, the husband of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. Emhoff, the first Jewish person to be married to one of the top two nationally elected U.S. officials, bowed his head at an execution wall at Auschwitz, where he left a wreath of flowers in the U.S. flag&#8217;s colors and the words: \u201cFrom the people of the United States of America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Germans established Auschwitz in 1940 for Polish prisoners; later they expanded the complex, building death chambers and crematoria where Jews from across Europe were brought by train to be murdered.<\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said \u201cthe suffering of 6 million innocently murdered Jews remains unforgotten \u2014 as does the suffering of the survivors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recall our historic responsibility on Holocaust Memorial Day so that our Never Again endures in future,\u201d he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The German parliament was holding a memorial event focused this year on those who were persecuted for their sexual orientation. Thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual people were incarcerated and killed by the Nazis \u2014 a fate only publicly recognized decades after WWII.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the world on Friday events were planned to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an annual commemoration established by a United Nations resolution in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>In Britain, candles were lit to remember victims of genocide in homes and public buildings, including Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Frank Jordans in Berlin and Colleen Barry in Milan contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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