Auschwitz Victims Honored On Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 27th, 2010 - 10:08 pm ICT by GDBy Gina Gomez
Jan 27, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Today being the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, hundreds of elderly survivors of the former concentration camp of Auschwitz, gathered at the death camp in a bid to mark the 65th anniversary of its liberation. The survivors went to the barracks and watchtowers of the former concentration camp along with the neighboring camp of Birkenau, which witnessed the death of millions of Jews in the hands of the Nazis during the Second World War.
With the aim of honoring the innocent victims, the ceremony was widely attended by Auschwitz survivors, Soviet veterans as well as a host of other eminent personalities. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined other prominent Polish leaders for the ceremonies that were arranged at the Birkenau concentration camp, which was the site of the death of around 1 million Jews under the Nazi forces.
At the occasion, Shimon Peres, the Israeli President reiterated that the surviving perpetrators who carried out the heinous crime should be brought to book and justice should be meted out to the victims of the holocaust.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Day was designated by the United Nations in the year 2005 as a day to remember the victims of the Holocaust. The remembrance day also coincides with the day the concentration camps were liberated by the Soviet troops in the year 1945. An estimated 1.1 million people mainly comprising Jews were brutally killed in the death camp in the gas chambers or by shootings, hanging, starvation and by so-called medical ‘experiments’, among others.
Auschwitz now stands as a museum to commemorate the innocent victims who lost their lives there at the hands of the Nazi forces.
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