On this day Holocaust Memorial Day

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Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) has been held in the UK since 2001 and the United Nations declared this an International event in November 2005. 27 January was chosen as the date for HMD because it was on this date in 1945 that the largest Nazi killing camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated.
 

So few actual survivors left - these portraits were covered on the BBC news this morning - wonderful quality

 
A grave, serious topic warrants a serious answer.

We don’t have many left here either. Survivors of the war more generally. Holocaust or resistance. FFL etc.

Righteous among the Nations as its called either, they have their own museum/memorial in Israel.

Lest we forget.
 
The Soviets found few people there when they arrived because the nazis had fled and taken with them all the more able prisoners who endured extreme hunger and cold on their way to camps in Austria.

My two uncles went through that ordeal and survived it. They are very old now and their health has deteriorated in the last months.

I am pretty sad that the Slovak fim "sprava" or "the Auschwitz report" did not get a chance to concurr at the oscars last year. It is available on most platforms and tells the true story of two Slovak jews (Vrba and Wetzler) who escaped Auschwitz and gave to the Allies a detailed map of the camp. Although not much was done against Auschwitz militarily, this report that circulated in Central Europe confidentially saved many Jews notably in Hungary who knew that they had to go in hiding.

A very hard film. But excellent nonetheless. Slovak TV aired it yesterday. Unfortunately, too many Slovaks think the subject is overblown or that it did not really happen...and that their government had nothing to do with the murder of 70000 Slovaks..

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For anyone who uses Twitter, would genuinely recommend following the Auschwitz Memorial - https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum

They post daily pictures and bios of people who lost their lives in the camps. It's always sobering.

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26 January 1942, A Dutch Jewish girl, Alida Baruch, was born in Amsterdam. In July 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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