The Guardian view on commemorating Auschwitz’s liberation: the urgency of Holocaust remembrance | Editorial

MEmory is fragile. A decade ago, 300 survivors gathered in Auschwitz to commemorate the liberation of the Nazi death camp. Monday 50 You will gather For the eighty anniversary. The average age of the survivors of the Holocaust was estimated at a study Posted last year. Estir Sentu is 97 years old He still meets the promise She presented to her dying sister, Vanie, whose last wish was to “tell what happened to us … so that history does not forget her.” Almost a million Jews were killed out of 6 million Jews in holocaust They were killed in the complex in Poland occupied by Germany, along with fewer numbers of Polish, Roma and Sente, the Soviet war prisoners, gay men, political prisoners and others. Her name has become synonymous with evil.

The decision made by the Auschwitz Museum may be the prohibition of speeches this year in practice. The memory of the Holocaust has often occurred It was a battlefield In Poland. The museum’s task stands above politics, however it cannot be completely isolated from global affairs. Vladimir Putin has attended in the past, but there will be no Russian presence this time. Earlier this month, the Polish Deputy Foreign Minister seemed to indicate that the authorities would be obligated to arrest the Israeli Prime Minister if he travels to attend the ceremony, because the International Criminal Court decided to arrest the Israeli Prime Minister. Note Benjamin Netanyahu was arrested for war crimes in Gaza. Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, insisted on Netanyahu He will be able to attend safelyAlthough it is not expected to include the Israeli delegation.

But the museum’s decision also guarantees a welcome focus on the words of the survivors themselves, and on all those who grieve and represent – parents, children, friends and lovers. Those who were blurred. Although their numbers are diminishing, their testimony is still loud and more urgent than ever. “It will never be repeated,” this was the demand made by the survivors of Boukhnafald for the first time in 1945. But the genocide occurred over and over again. This year also coincides with the thirtieth anniversary of the Bosnian Muslim massacre in Serbreenica.

Holocaust anniversary box Warn The anti -Semitism has increased significantly in the United Kingdom and the world since the Hamas attacks on October 7 and the war in Gaza, and that extremists seek to use these attacks to incite Islamophobia. The extreme right is to rise All over EuropeIncluding in Germany. Last Monday, the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, donated what was widely seen Two Naziti greeting While celebrating the inauguration of the American President. Earlier this month, Alice Fidel, the leader of the alternative for Germany, hosted a conversation on the X channel in which she indicated that Hitler was “a communist and socialist man, and on the contrary,” Alice, the leader of the Alternative Party for Germany. President Trump has adopted himself Fascist discourse in Iron against “Vamus” and accusing migrants of “poisoning the blood” of the country.

The anti -Semitism and other forms of intolerance have never disappeared. Now they flourish. The real believers encourage; Others walk with them as a matter of ambition or indifference. “Employees” suggested. Primo Levy – Another survivor of the death camp – more and thus more dangerous than monsters. Abstraction from humanity rarely leads to genocide, but all genocide begins with the abstraction of humanity. When the mysterious and inherent belief that “every stranger is an enemy” is “the main introduction to the logical measurement, then, at the end of the chain, There is beer [concentration camp]Levi books.

There is also a way out of Auschwitz, and begins to remember what happened there.

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