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January 27, 1945. This week, we commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, one of Nazi Germany's largest concentration and extermination camps. Auschwitz has since become a symbol for the Holocaust itself, but what did liberation actually mean for its survivors - and is the full story being forgotten?
Thank you to Mindu Hornick and Bill Harvey for sharing their personal story of surviving Auschwitz and to Fulwell 73 for helping make it happen. Thank you to Jeremy Dronfield, author of the Boy Who Followed his Father into Auschwitz, and to the work of Robert Jan Van Pelt, curator for the international exhibit, "Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away."
Archival material accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archives of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Thomas P. Headen.
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We encourage all institutions and organizations worldwide to participate in the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by organizing spaces where the live broadcast from the Memorial can be jointly viewed.
On 27 January 2025, the television broadcast of the ceremony produced by the Polish Television will be available to all, providing an opportunity for collective commemoration and global reflection on the significance of past events. The streaming will be available with English translation ">via the YouTube channel of the Museum.
Such a form of commemorating the anniversary in different parts of the world is both a mark of respect for history and a call to take moral responsibility for the future, a key component of which is the memory of the Auschwitz tragedy. Planning and announcing a joint viewing of the broadcast in Your institutions can be an important element in uniting Your community around the memory.