After the 60th anniversary of the D-Day (I posted about that on 5th of June 2004), the World is marking the anniversary of the death camp liberation of Auschwitz these days.
Do not forget our duty of memory, specially for our children.
Lest we forget that…
…about 6 million Jews were systematically murdered, 1.5 million of these were children. This represents 2/3rds of the European Jews and about 1/3rd of the worldwide Jewish community at this time. 6 million people, it’s about the current population of Austria or Switzerland, annihilated in 6 years, 1.5 million children. One and a half million children were killed. God….
A concentration camp survivor wipes a tear during a ceremony at the former death camp Auschwitz Birkenau. World leaders and elderly survivors of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz gathered in Poland on Thursday to mark the 60th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet troops and remember the victims of the Holocaust.
[via Reuters]