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Old 27-01-2025, 12:10 AM #1
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Default 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz : Mon. 27/1/25

It will be on the 3 News Ch's



Sky News Text :
[A poignant black and white image of Holocaust
survivor Susan Pollack, 94,
features on the front of the Daily Express.
It is marking the 80th anniversary of the
liberation of Auschwitz with a
simple message: "Never Forget".]





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Liberated Survivors Of Auschwitz, 1945…

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King’s ‘deeply personal pilgrimage’ as he becomes the first monarch to visit Auschwitz…

The King will become the first British monarch to set foot on the site of Auschwitz on Monday, as he makes a “deeply personal pilgrimage” to mark the 80th anniversary of its liberation.

Royal sources said he will pay tribute “both as man and monarch” after years of working with Holocaust survivors to preserve their memories and share them with a new generation.

The King will attend the commemoration service at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, while the Prince of Wales represents the Royal family at a London service for Holocaust Memorial Day.

Walking through the camp’s haunting “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate and viewing the collection of personal items confiscated from victims as they entered Auschwitz-Birkenau, the King will lay a wreath at the site known as the Death Wall, where several thousand people were executed under the Nazi regime.

Described as a “deeply personal pilgrimage” for the King, and a “particularly poignant” visit after hearing the stories of survivors in engagements over many years, it will be the first time a British monarch has visited the site of the concentration and extermination camp.

Around 50 survivors are expected to make the journey this year, compared with 300 a decade ago.

At a Holocaust education event at Buckingham Palace earlier this month the King said about visiting: “I feel I must for the 80th anniversary,” adding: “It’s so important.”

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The most profoundly depressing thing about today is that every year fewer people remember. Young people don't connect generally because it was "before their time", and with anti-Semitic attacks the highest ever and people carrying placards saying Hitler was right, what is the point of remembering for one day?

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There's really no question about it at this point. It fell out of living memory, and the world forgot. The reason we were supposed to "never forget", was so that the civilised world wouldn't sleepwalk back into exactly the sort of mindsets that allowed these horrors to occur... and put simply and depressingly, it has happened. It looks quite different because the world has a lot more people and is a lot more interconnected. But the mindset is 100% here, now.
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King Willem-Alexander of Netherlands, Queen Maxima, and Crown Princess Amalia also present at this anniversary

as well as our Prime Minister Dick Schoof (whom was just back from China, meetings with President Xi)
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We plan a visit later in the year when we go to Krakow
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as well as the NOS here having a livestream as of last week until today, with poetry readings for the holocaust victims
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Yesterday was very moving.

Thanks for posting these, Arista.
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Monday was a really heavy and emotional day taking in this horrific cruelty and murdering of innocent people.
Listening to the accounts of those who were children at the time, was heartbreaking.

It should not be just one day this is brought to and kept in our minds.
It should be every day.

These evil atrocities must never be forgotten, never.
It was an evil nightmare.

I've always felt anger and dismay how the rest of the World could not stop this sooner.
However somehow Monday in this year, hit me really harder.
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