Auschwitz 70th anniversary

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Auschwitz 70th anniversary: Survivors warn of new crimes ca99

27 January 2015 Last updated at 17:24

Auschwitz survivors have urged the world not to allow a repeat of the crimes of the Holocaust as they mark 70 years since the camp's liberation.

"We survivors do not want our past to be our children's future," Roman Kent, born in 1929, told a memorial gathering at the death camp's site in Poland.

Some 300 Auschwitz survivors returned for the ceremony under a giant tent.

Some 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were killed there between 1940 and 1945, when Soviet troops liberated it.
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Once again young Jewish boys are afraid to wear yarmulkes [skullcaps] on the streets of Paris, Budapest, London and even Berlin”

Ronald S Lauder President of the World Jewish Congress

It is expected to be the last major anniversary event survivors are able to attend in considerable numbers.

Ronald S Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, told the commemoration: "Jews are targeted in Europe once again because they are Jews...

"Once again young Jewish boys are afraid to wear yarmulkes [skullcaps] on the streets of Paris, Budapest, London and even Berlin."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30996555

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The plaque is near the Liberation Monument in St Peter Port - it commemorates (if that is the right word ??) the deportation of three Jewish women who lived in Guernsey, all three died in Auschwitz.

Some pics I took when I visited Guernsey's Occupation Museum ..

The star ... don't really need to say anything about that ... it speaks for itself.





The striped uniform is from the SS Camp on Alderney - the local people who lived on Alderney were kicked off the island so they could build labour camps - three labour camps were built by the Organisation Todt, a fourth was run by the SS, this camp is now the site of Alderney's Airport. The red triangle denotes that it was worn by a political prisoner. The labour camps were there to build Hitler's Atlantic wall. -There is also a striped uniform in the museum in Alderney.

My last headmaster was Dr Walter Roy, at the Hewett .. his family was Jewish and lived in Austria, his father had the foresight to realise what was going to happen, the family managed to escape a couple of weeks before the Anschluss...

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