Seventy-five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, a dwindling number of elderly Holocaust survivors gathered at the former German Nazi death camp on Monday to honour its more than 1.1 million mostly Jewish victims and to share their alarm over rising anti-semitism. Accompanied by Polish President Andrzej Duda, they laid floral wreaths by the Death Wall in Auschwitz where the Nazis shot dead thousands of prisoners. “This is about survivors, it’s not about politics,” Ronald Lauder, head of the World Jewish Congress, told AFP in the Auschwitz camp, now a memorial and state museum run by Poland. Duda was to make an address at the Monday ceremony in Auschwitz alongside survivors. Although Allied warplanes flew over the death camp itself, no orders were given to bomb it.

Source: Egypt Independent January 27, 2020 09:22 UTC