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Europe remembers Nazi camp victims
Published: 11 April, 2008, 05:59
Edited: 29 November, 2009, 17:24
Europe is remembering the estimated 18 million people who passed through Nazi concentration camps. April 11 marks the liberation of Buchenwald, one of the most notorious camps in Nazi Germany. For many the day is a chance to highlight anti-semitism and po
There were more than 14,000 Nazi concentration camps in Germany and on the occupied territories.
Ida Specter was eight when she and her family were sent to a Nazi concentration camp in Western Ukraine.
“There were a lot of children but I don’t remember anybody running around or playing. We were so hungry – we couldn’t think of anything else. All the grass in the yard was eaten,” Ida recalls.
Inside the Buchenwald crematorium, 2006
It was there that she became aware of her ethnicity.
“It was only in the camp that I found out that I was a Jew. Before the war I didn’t even suspect such thing as a nationality existed,” Ida says.
On average, a prisoner lasted for less than year, many dying from starvation or torture. Millions were systematically murdered.
The process of death was perfected to the smallest detail. Before being killed, people were exploited until their last breath. And even after their death, the prisoners’ hair, ashes and bones were used in manufacturing.
Now the fascist ideology is officially banned in Russia but some of its variations like racism and nationalism still attract supporters among the country’s youth.
In Germany, the number of neo-Nazis is also on the increase. Last year, more than one in twenty young men voted for a far-right party.
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i first became aware of the Holocaust when i was 13-seeing photos in Life Magazine, i have been reading & updating my information ever since, i am 61 now. i could be wrong but blaming the Jews for the death of Jesus Christ,fueled anti-semitism, the punishment of Germany after WWI, was the breeding ground for Hitler to rise to power, also the other countries in Europe and the East & the USA, had to know that Hitler was re-arming germany, which was supposed to be forbidden.Also the people who lived close to the death camps, etc, and KNEW what was going on are also guilty be it--Germans, Poles, etc, --check the history of the Bayer Company noted for aspirins Krupp, and many more companies did business with USA companies also.look up sir Anthony Eden or mr Chamberlain from the UK,one of these gentlemen signed a treaty with Hitler on a worthless piece of paper, in old news reels, you can see one of the above, waving the treaty paper in the air, while departing from a train..so in my small opinion --there was alot of "collective guilt" to go around. i also include all of the non-Jews that were killed in my remembrance.i do not think we will ever know the exact count of innocent human beings that were lost to us,and until we realize that we are all members of the Family of Human Beings, wars, hatred, genocide,greed,murder will continue. I try to remember "THE HOLOCAUST OF WW 2,victims and survivors, and family members, along with innocent deaths that have occured ever since, i.e. Bosnia, Sudan, S.Africa,Chad,Ruwanda,Sierre Leone,Palestine, Israel and in the USA also. there is not enough space here for all that i would like to say. I hope that anyone who reads or comments on this site, can spread good will & justice for all of us, and maybe we can give back something in memory of the victims. Sincerely, Franny
I also am feeling the effects of the holocaust. My grandfather died at a concentration camp. He was warned several times not to be drinking in the guard tower but he climbed up there anyway with his rifle and bottle and dam if he didnt fall out of the tower.