The world remembered Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27 but not us in this corner of the globe. We seem to have forgotten this important international day of remembrance. There was no mention of the day in the media or by any politician or government.
It happened a long time ago in far away Europe. So why should we bother about it? Eighty years ago on January 27, Soviet troops entered Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and liberated the surviving inmates.
Auschwitz was the biggest and most evil of the concentration camps. Over 1,3 million Jews, as well as other prisoners, were gassed to death at Auschwitz. It was part of Hitler’s grand plan to eliminate the Jews from the face of the earth.
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Millions of Jews were rounded up all over Europe, loaded onto wagon trains like cattle and sent to the concentration camps to be gassed to death. Their crime? They were Jewish.
To mark this atrocity, the United Nations declared January 27 Holocaust Memorial Day. Despite the world’s outrage at the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews, there have been several genocides after the Holocaust: Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur and many more. There are still some survivors of the Holocaust and they have told the world how they survived the horrors of the concentration camps.
Of course, the Holocaust is a big day of mourning in Israel. But the irony is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is no better than Adolf Hitler. He has taken the lives of over 71000 innocent Palestinans in Gaza. How could a nation which suffered so much under Hitler themselves turn into such killers?
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