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Holocaust survivor Charlotte Knobloch calls for a stronger defense of the country’s “fragile” democracy and issues a searing rebuke to the far right: “We will fight for our Germany.”
In an emotional speech to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Knobloch tells the Bundestag lower house of parliament that extremists and conspiracy theorists had again taken aim at liberal European values.
“We must not forget for a single day how fragile the precious achievements of the last 76 years are” since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp on January 27, 1945.
“Anti-Semitic thought and words draw votes again, are socially acceptable again from schools to corona protests and of course the internet, that catalyst for hatred and incitement of all kinds.”
Holocaust survivors honored with online event amid pandemic Share Updated: 2:30 PM EST Jan 27, 2021 By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press
Holocaust survivors honored with online event amid pandemic Share Updated: 2:30 PM EST Jan 27, 2021
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Holocaust Remembrance Day features memorials, COVID-19 vaccinations
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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) speaks with a rabbi following a ceremony on the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany s Auschwitz death camp on International Holocaust Remembrance Day Wednesday in Berlin. Photo by Odd Andersen/EPA-EFE
Jan. 27 (UPI) Millions around the world on Wednesday honored the many Jewish victims who were systematically killed during World War II.
Numerous world leaders joined survivors, members of the Jewish community and supporters in recognizing International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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The day marks the anniversary when Auschwitz-Birkenau the largest Nazi concentration and death camp was liberated by the Soviet Red Army during World War II. More than a million Jews died at the camp.
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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says he will begin leaving a light in a window at his official residence, Bellevue Palace, to remember those killed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Steinmeier has called on Germans to do the same as a remembrance that “the dead in the corona pandemic are not just statistics for us.” He added, “Even if we don’t know their names and families, we know that every figure stands for a loved one whom we miss infinitely.”
With more than 850 deaths from the coronavirus in the previous 24-hour period, Germany said Friday its death toll has surpassed the 50,000 mark.
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