Commemorations are taking place amid a rise of antisemitism that gained traction during lockdowns as the pandemic exacerbated hatred online.
'Barely looked human': Holocaust survivor tells EU of horrific condition of Auschwitz prisoners
Nazi German forces killed 1.1 million people at Auschwitz, most of them Jews, but also Poles, Roma and others. "The countless experiences of infinite suffering on the brink of death are already a distant, unimaginable story for new generations," she said. In recent days alone, a 12-year-old Jewish boy in Italy was attacked and subjected to antisemitic slurs while two men were punched in London.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a virtual U.N. Holocaust remembrance ceremony Thursday that he has made tackling the roots of intolerance an urgent priority. "Our country bears a special responsibility — the genocide against the European Jews is a German crime," Bas said in the German parliament, the Bundestag.
"Grandpa Bela, a quiet man whose family nickname was ‘Bela the Wise,’ sent me here today to say on his behalf, that the Jews have not surrendered," Lapid said. Gathered at the European Parliament, EU lawmakers listened to 100-year-old Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlander's ordeal. She was arrested in 1944 and brought to Theresienstadt, now part of the Czech Republic. A year before, her mother and brother were deported to Auschwitz and killed.
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