Holocosts are afraid that Europe is forgetting the lesson of Aushwitz

“By looking at a concentration camp with your own eyes and listening to a survivor that all this has passed, it has really brought it home. It is important for youth like me. We will be able to vote soon. The distant rights more and more and more Getting more support in Germany and we need to learn from the past.

Xavier is a 17 -year -old German student. I met him at a Holocost Education Center in Dachu, Southern Germany, just around a corner from the Nazi concentration camp of the same name. He and his classmates were spending two days there, learning about the Nazi past of their country and arguing its relevance in today’s world.

Eighteen -year -old Melik admitted that she did not know much about Holocaust before coming to Dachou. Hearing a survivor, Eva Umlaf, talking about what happened, he touched his heart, he said.

She wished racism and intolerance was spoken more often. “I wear a headcharf and people are often disappointed. We need to know more about each other so that we can all live together well.”

Miguel warned of growing racism and antisemitism on social media platforms, including jokes about holocaust. “We need to stop it,” his 17 -year -old friend Ida ran inside.

“We are the last generations who can meet and hear those who survived the tragedy. We have to ensure that everyone is informed to stop anything as if it is happening again.”

They are earnest and hopeful. Some can say naive.

Here in Europe, 80 years after the termination of Holocost, society is rapidly divided. Support for political parties increases, often, but especially not at especially on far and left, which are hurry to indicate on the other. Outside person. Unwanted. They are migrant, Muslim, LGBTQ+ people or Jews.

“I want everyone to live together, Jewish, Catholic, Black, White or Whatever,” Eva Umlaf, Holocaust is called the survivor, who left such an impression on the German teenagers.

She describes Holocost as a warning as to what can happen when prejudice can be occupied.

“That’s why I dedicate my time to talk, talk, talk,” she says. Now in his 80s, he was the youngest prisoner to free from Nazi Extraction Camp, Aushwitz, eight decades ago on eight decades ago. She has written a book about her experiences and, along with working as a child psychiatrist, she often speaks of death camps and antismitism, for audiences at home and abroad.

“Death Mills” is the title of the film of an American War Department, which is shown to German citizens after the war, which between 1933 and 1945, freeing about 300 concentration camps run by Nazis and their colleagues from allied footage Was edited.

The skeletons naked people, with shaved head and hollow eyes, stumble to the reshuffle and back of the camera. A man is desperate to eat gnaws on a carnivorous bone, clearly food. Piles of dead bodies are scattered in all corners; Foreign faces turn in open mouth screams forever.

In the warehouse after the warehouse, you carefully label the gold teeth, read glasses and shoes related to the slain men, women and children. And the bundles of hair shaved from female prisoners for sale for Nazi benefits.

The Nazis used concentrations and death camps to the “enemies of Reach” or simply “Attemptation” (subhumans). These include, others include: ethnic poles, Roma, war Soviet prisoners, disabled people, others were labeled as homosexuals and the biggest goal of all: European Jews.

Overall, six million Jews were murdered, known as Holocaust. The number has been calculated on the basis of Nazi documents and pre -war demographic data.

The legal term “genocide” was coined and recognized as an international crime, after the attainment of the world, and after the Nazi mass murder, which continued with enthusiasm with the war with the war Stayed It refers to acts made with the intention of destroying a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, whole or partially.

Aushwitz is perhaps the most famous Nazi camp. Its magnitude symbolizes Holocaust as a whole. 1.1 million people were killed there, one of them million Jews. Most of the gas chambers had poison N Masss. His bodies were burnt in a huge cremation. Ashes given to local farmers for use in their fields.

Eva told the students, “I was very young to feel whatever was happening in the goodwitz.” “But what my mind has forgotten, remember my body.”

Kishore listened carefully. Nobody looked or look at his smartphone, as Eva reported that the number of tattoos in blue ink on her arm was A-26959.

Being forced tattoos was part of the “procedure” for every prisoner who reached the goodwitz, who was not immediately killed and was chosen for forcible labor or medical use instead.

“Why did he choose a two -year -old child to make tattooed?” Eva asks. She says that she only gets an answer to that question: “Superhumans” – Nazis believed that they were making a better race – not thought that Jews were a human being.

“We were mice, Suhuman, were completely inhuman with this master race. And so if you were two years old, or 80 years old, it didn’t matter to him.”

Recalling the trauma inherited from her young mother, realizing the disadvantage and loneliness of every family member before Holocost, she feels as a little girl, in which someone was a little girl with a grandmother or To hug the cake with her, Eva at one point starts crying quietly. Especially when she plays a video of recently participated in the annual “March of the Living” in Aushwitz, where the servants walk with the youth from all over Europe, “Never Again” with the mantra.

As they see her, many teenagers in Eva audience have also dropped their cheeks down.

But a small drive distance away at the Jewish Community Center in Munich, protected by the armed police, the acting president of the Jewish community Charlet Nobloch, tells me how concerned about modern-modern antismitism.

Born in the early 1930s, Ms. Nobloche remembered her father’s hands and looking at the windows of the Jewish shop and in November 1938, on the night of the Broken Glass, the flames were destroyed when the Nazi rule the Nazi rule the Jews And carried out collective acts of violence against them and their property, while most of the non-Jewish Germans were either happy or seen in another way.

She says that the antisemitism never completely disappeared after the war, but she did not believe that things would become worrying again as they are now. Even in Germany, she says, which historically has done a lot to face her Nazi past and to be cautious against antismitism.

It is a real -supported claim by members of the Jewish community in Germany and elsewhere, who says that they are now publicly afraid to wear a star of David and like to not deliver a Jewish newspaper to their homes. , Their neighbors for fear of being labeled “a Jew”.

Studies by the Community Security Trust in the UK and the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency tell the same story. The FRA says that 96% of the Jews experienced antisemitism in everyday life in interviews in 13 European countries.

The Jewish communities in South America also noted a significant increase in antisemiam, while in Canada, an synonym was fired a few weeks ago and a shooting incident at a Jewish school. In the last summer, the Jewish tombs were launched in the city of Cincinnati.

Former President Joe Biden identified global antisementism as a concern for a foreign policy. Academic Debora Lipstad, who was his special messenger to monitor and combat it, highlight antisemitism online – often with other forms of Islamophobia and discrimination – which she says that she says that external actors like Russia, Iran and China manipulated by external actors like Russia, Iran and China. It goes so that there can be division in society and division in society and further its goals and messages.

She talks about a global growth in antismitism following Israel’s military reaction in Gaza, which has killed thousands of Palestinians on 7 October 2023 after a Hamas -led massacre of 1,200 people inside Israel.

Professor Lipstad says that Israel’s military functions are often convicted on Jewish people. She says that not all Jews can be held responsible for the decisions of the Government of Israel. He is racism.

The Amadeu Antonio Foundation, which collects information about antisemtic events in Germany, lists an incident last month, where the red-thed frescoes were dubbed on a church and town hall in the city of Lengenou, both of them boycotted and Was called for Gesing. Jewish – Reference to Nazi Gas Rooms of Holocost.

Aushwitz and Holocaust did not begin with poison gas. Their roots were among other Jews who go back to Europe for centuries.

The CEO of the European Rabbis Conference, Gadi Gronich, warned that the target of the minorities is now becoming mainstream. The Muslim community is still brunt, they say, surprised themselves at the level of antisementism they have seen.

He thinks that after two to 80 years, world war, some intentionally choosing to leave Holocaust and it is the responsibility of learning from it in the past.

But the past will not be silent. Under the snow -capped leaves covering the forest floor, near the city of Polishk, you still find the renunciation of shoes, which belong to the victims of the Holocaust.

There the soles are so small, partly buried under the earth, their murdered owners must have been young children. Sewing on some bits of leather is still plain to see. Millions of shoes were sent here to a leather factory, which was then run by slave labor in the Stutthof concentration camp.

The shoes came from the Nazi occupied area. But mainly, it is believed to, from Aushwitz.

“For me, these shoes are screaming. They are screaming: we were alive 80 years ago!” Polish music composer Grzegorz Kwiatkowski tells me. He is a long -time preacher for shoes and is already displayed with other people in the concentration camp museum. Gregor says that the message of shoes is anti-war and anti-discrimination. And must be heard.

“These shoes were of people. You know, they can be our shoes, okay? Your shoes, or my wife’s shoes, or my son’s shoes. These shoes are asking to pay attention, Change yourself in a moral way (as a human) to preserve them, not only, but also to preserve them.

This year’s memory of the liberation of Aushwitz is considered particularly important. It is probably the last great anniversary that eyewitnesses and the remaining people will be alive to tell us what happened – and to ask us: What are we remembering today and what lessons we have already forgotten?