{"id":1415,"date":"2020-01-27T13:24:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T18:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2020-01-27T13:28:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T18:28:24","slug":"international-holocaust-remembrance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/?p=1415","title":{"rendered":"International Holocaust Remembrance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

75 years ago today, the Red Army “liberated” Auschwitz and filmed and documented the horrors they uncovered at that Nazi concentration camp. Today, January 27, 2020, the world remembers the Holocaust in hopes that it will not happen again, and to honor the memory of those who perished, not only in Auschwitz, but the millions murdered by the Nazis during World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was fortunate to visit Auschwitz this past September, and it was certainly a memorable experience to tread on that sacred ground where near 1 million Jews were murdered, along with over 100,000 others. I wrote a bit about that visit in my blog here<\/a> and also posted some photos on my web site here<\/a>. All told, it’s estimated that about 6,000,000, or two-thirds of the European Jewish population were murdered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Never forget. Those who don’t remember history are destined to repeat it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, if you have teh stomach for it, I recommend you view this YouTube video, a PBS Frontline <\/em>hour-long episode that originally aired on May 7, 1985: https:\/\/<\/a>www.youtube.com<\/a>\/watch?v=xy_xWKJubuY<\/a>. Warning, it may be disturbing. But it is history, never forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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