The survivors return from Auschwitz, while the world remembers the Nazi death camp after 80 years

About 50 survivors of the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz-Birkinao will return to the site on Monday to commemorate the day when it was finally edited on January 27, 1945.

They will be joined by heads of state, including King Charles and other European royal family members, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German President Frank Walter Steinmeier.

But the survivors – most of them will be in the late eighties and nineties – and not the great characters, will be the ones whose voices will be heard during the memorial in the camp, where 1.1 people were killed, most of them Jews.

Their message is to tell the world what happened here and make sure that this does not happen again.

“Every soul on this earth has the right to life. Auschwitz was a laboratory to kill people. This was his mission and he proved himself: a few of them survived Auschwitz,” says Jonday Lux, who is now 94 years old who arrived with her older twin sisters in 1944.

Although the temperatures during the day in recent days have risen to the degree of freezing and the melting of a large part of the snow, many of the fifty who arrived to commemorate the Monday are now very weak so that they cannot stay in the open for a long time.

Instead, a huge tent and a fireplace were installed over the “Gate of Death”, a name called Berkinaw.

Today, the survivors and Polish President André Doda will start a wreath on the “death wall” in the first Auschwitz camp, where thousands of Polish prisoners, Jews and the Soviet war prisoners were shot.

Later, the scene will move to the death camp in Berkenaw, known as Auschwitz II.

Each major anniversary differs from the liberation of the Soviet forces of the camp from the other. Thirty years ago, the international interest was much lower, as the famous writer Elie Vizel led a large group of his survivors and relatives to one of the bodies that the Nazis blew up before their flight.

German historian Susan Wilmems is loved about the survivors who met them for several decades: “Many of them were like my favorite grandparents for me. Of course we lost many of them and it is my duty to continue and be a witness to them.”

There will be no political speeches from international leaders alongside the gateway to death, and there will be no Russian presence due to the comprehensive war that was launched against Ukraine for nearly three years, although the camp was liberated by the Sixty Army of the first Ukrainian army, which is dominated by the Russians. . before.

Vladimir Putin attended the 60th anniversary; He is not welcome now.

The Nazi decision to eliminate the Jewish population in Europe entered into the extermination camps in early 1942. Six of which were built in occupied Poland: in Khilmano, Balsk, Swibbur, Triplenka, Maidalic, and Ashfitz Berkinao.

Tricelinka was much smaller than Auschwitz, yet between 800,000 to 850,000 Jews there was in a much shorter period.

Heinrich Hemler, Supreme Commander of the horrific Special Security Forces, and camp commander Rudolph Hose to expand the Auschwitz complex to build a second camp in Berkinao for industrial murders.

By the end of 1942, there were four separate gas rooms and bodies.

The first mass deportations of the Jews came to Berkinaw from Slovakia and France in March 1942, then in July from the Netherlands and Belgium as well, and they walked under that sign until their death.

Soon the trains will reach Berkinaw on a specially constructed slope, a short distance from two gas rooms, and at one time 12,000 Jews were killed by gas and their bodies were burned every day.

Jonah Lux had already lost her parents in Shemo and arrived in 1944 with her twin sister, Myriam and her older sister, Shana from the Jewish neighborhood in Lods to the north.

“They ordered me to go to the left, which means the Holocaust of the bodies, while my twin was sent to the right. It was only because the man was very bored, and he said,” Levant, right, left, right “without even looking at and said to Ben C: “I didn't know that leaving meant death, but I knew it was not good.”

Between 80 to 90% of the new arrivals were sent to their death, while others were chosen to work with forced labor. “I was already very close to the gate, and I saw sparks and fire coming out of the chimneys, and even felt the smell of burned meat.”

Jonah Lux was only rescued because her older sister shouted, saying that she should not be separated from her twin, and the word reached the reputable Nazi “Angel” in the camp, Joseph Munjeel, who used part of Berkinao to conduct fatal medical experiments often on twins. .

Women, children, the elderly and the elderly immediately were sent to the gas rooms. My grandfather, on board the first Dutch transportation, survived forced labor for a month and day, until August 18, 1942.

His sister, Van Hasilt, and her husband, the headmaster Simon, and their two -year -old daughters Herme, and Sofia, and Sofia, nine years old, were killed upon their arrival on February 12, 1943.

Almost a million European Jews were killed here from 1941 to 1945. But the dead were also about seventy thousand Polish prisoners, about 21,000 Roma, and about 15,000 Soviet prisoners, and an unknown number of gay men.

Auschwitz attracted 1.83 million visitors last year, and although it was closed to commemorate, large numbers wandered around the museum and spread in many old buildings via Auschwitz 1 on the weekend, then at the abandoned, sprawling Berkinao site.

The size of the site is terrible. The remains of many blocks are cordoned off, with brick foundations everything remains when they look at the distance. But the ruins of the gas and bodies rooms are still in place, and it was detonated while the Nazis was seeking to destroy the evidence.

“Your presence here makes you feel anxious. Don't realize the extent of sadness until you see it,” a young woman said with a group of friends from Lancashire, all of whom are eighteen years old.

Another said: “It is clear that you are learning about it, but it is crazy to see it in real life.” “It is crazy to believe that some people do not believe in its existence.”

The extremist right parties have made great progress in many European countries, especially in Germany, where the alternative for Germany is ranked second in opinion polls before the elections scheduled for next month.

Historian Susan Wilmems, who brought groups to Auschwitz for years, last week accompanied a group of police from Berlin to Auschwitz to explain the rise of Nazism and how any kind of military hierarchical sequence faces the risk of moving to tyranny.

“I am doing this work to help these people get a clear understanding of what the police work should be, and whatever they are asked to do, their decision remains whether they will be obedient or not; and that they will do that.” It is their right, but rather their duty, to reject anything, in their view, against human rights. “

Among those who were not in Poland to commemorate the most famous survivor from Auschwitz in Italy, Liliana Sigri, 94, who will instead participate in the events in Rome.

Sigri, Senator, has a lifelong protection of the police because of a torrent of anti -Semitic abuse, which has reached a new level on social media since the release of a documentary this month about her life.

Her father and grandparents were all killed in Berkinao, but she survived like Jonah Lux from the Nazis's death march to Malchain near the Ravennsbruck's detention camp when she was a teenage girl.

“Specger) often tell me: I am tired of insults,” says Roberto Goratch, head of the Holocaust Memorial in Milan.