VIDEO: Auschwitz Museum marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Due to the pandemic, the museum that stands in the grounds of the former Nazi death camp in Poland, was this year holding an online commemoration, focusing on the fate of the children who passed through that infamous gate
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Published: 01.27.21 , 17:01
With coronavirus raging around the world, this year s International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations were taking place largely online.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, which stands on the grounds of the former Nazi death camp in Poland, was this year focusing its annual memorial on the fate of the children who passed through that infamous gate branded with the words Abreit Macht Frei (work sets you free).
Holocaust survivors mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day virtually amid pandemic
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Updated on:Jan 27, 2021, 7:08pm EST
Tova Friedman hid among corpses at Auschwitz amid the chaos of the extermination camp s final days.
Just 6 years old at the time, the Poland-born Friedman was instructed by her mother to lie absolutely still in a bed at a camp hospital, next to the body of a young woman who had just died. As German forces preparing to flee the scene of their genocide went from bed to bed shooting anyone still alive, Friedman barely breathed under a blanket and went unnoticed.
Days later, on Jan. 27, 1945, she was among the thousands of prisoners who survived to greet the Soviet troops who liberated the camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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WARSAW, Poland – Tova Friedman hid among corpses at Auschwitz amid the chaos of the extermination camp s final days.
Just 6 years old at the time, the Poland-born Friedman was instructed by her mother to lie absolutely still in a bed at a camp hospital, next to the body of a young woman who had just died. As German forces preparing to flee the scene of their genocide went from bed to bed shooting anyone still alive, Friedman barely breathed under a blanket and went unnoticed.
Days later, on Jan. 27, 1945, she was among the thousands of prisoners who survived to greet the Soviet troops who liberated the camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, UNESCO mobilizes governments and the private sector, including Facebook to fight denial and antisemitism
“Transmitting the history of the Holocaust is key to combatting current denial and conspiracy theories,” said UNESCO Director-General, Audrey Azoulay.
On the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, which will be marked this Wednesday, UNESCO will announce a number of initiatives to combat denial and antisemitism, during a high-level ceremony organized with the United Nations, in partnership with the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IRHA).
UN Secretary-General António Guterres, UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will participate.
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Edith Eva Eger was only sixteen years old when she was sent to the concentration camps. As a teenager, Eger had been hoping to join the Hungarian Olympic team as a gymnast before antisemitic laws forced her to quit. She, her sister Magda and the girls’ parents were sent to Auschwitz after living in a ghetto and a factory.
The very day Eger and her mother arrived her mother was sent to the gas chambers on the orders of Josef Mengle as a man who is more commonly known as the “Angel of Death”. Later that day, Eger was forced to dance in his quarters. He “thanked” her with a loaf of bread.