One thing we need to remember is that with all human beings, our blood is red.
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It makes no difference what our skin colour, nationality or religion is. If somebody is different from us, it doesn’t mean we’re better or worse. You cannot describe what it really was,” Ebert said.Įbert said there was at least one thing she wanted people to learn from her: “We have to be tolerant to each other. The smell, the heat, the sound of babies crying. They put in two buckets, one with water and one for human waste. In one cabin, they put about 70, 80 people man, woman, children, babies. They were moved to a ghetto where several families at a time were placed in one room and then moved again, to another ghetto, before being forced on to a train headed for Auschwitz.Īuschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of all the Nazi camps, where approximately 1.1 million people were murdered. Her family were stripped of their valuables and forced to wear gold stars. “We’re thinking about times in history when individuals have taken action to stand together with those who are facing persecution or prejudice or genocide.”Įbert described her childhood as “very protected”, but said it quickly unravelled once the Nazis invaded Hungary in the spring of 1944.
Joe Twilley, head of communications at the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, said the theme of this year’s commemorative event is to stand together. I will make sure we will build a national Holocaust and memorial centre so that future generations can never doubt what happened.” Speaking at the ceremony at Central Hall in Westminster, Johnson said: “As prime minister, I promise that we will preserve this truth forever. Survivors of genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur were present. The event also commemorated the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica, where about 8,000 Muslim men and boys over the age of 12 were murdered. It took me very much by surprise and it changed my whole life because I could not have believed that human beings could be like that.” The dreams are yesterday, they still haunt me. It’s very difficult for people who live miles away to understand what’s going and it’s our job to make sure they do.”įorsyth said he couldn’t believe it’s been 75 years since the liberation of the camps: “It feels like yesterday. Ian Forsyth, a second world war veteran who was among the first troops to liberate Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, said he feared that the lessons from the Holocaust were not being remembered: “I spend my life going round schools talking to whoever cares to listen, but unfortunately it’s difficult for someone who has not been there, who has not seen any concentration camp. He was liberated at Theresienstadt in May 1945 and was one of the Windermere children – 300 survivors who were brought to the Lake District after the Holocaust. Photograph: Chris Jackson/Getty Imagesīorn in Poland, Hersh was deported by the Nazis to a concentration camp at the age of 11, then moved to a number of others before being taken to Auschwitz.
The Duchess of Cambridge speaks to Holocaust and genocide survivors after the memorial in Westminster.
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