‘Bigotry is increasing’ Guterres warns, as UN marks the Holocaust

27 January, 2019

He was then a teenager in Auschwitz and was tattooed on his body to symbolize that he was Jewish. This happened more than 70 years ago but Marian Turski, a 92-year-old holocaust survivor, doesn’t forget any of it.

He remembers the torture, the cold temperature and the terrible conditions that he and others like him endured at the hands of Nazi. During the annual United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony, Marian Turski expressed that the world should needs to have  “more empathy and compassions” and we have to protect our children from catastrophes. His story is riveting and very touching. 

Other holocaust survivors such as Inge Auerbacher, who were children at the time, talked about the hard times they experienced and emphasized that hatred and anti-semitism need to stop. Some speakers at that event lamented that we have failed those who suffered the horrors of the holocaust by not learning from our failures from that horrible past.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked each January 27, the day when jews held at the notorious Auschwitz death camp were liberated by Allied troops 74 years ago.