International

Holocaust
Remembrance Day
27th JANUARY
• Today we celebrate “International Holocaust Remembrance Day”.
• Anyone who has ever been to Auschwitz/Birknau is reduced to absolute silence for we
can only imagine the horrors that took place there.
• The questions that kept drumming in my mind were: “Why so much hatred?; “How can
any human being practise such acts of cruelty on another?”
• Every year, the survivors return to Auschwitz/Birknau so that we do not forget the
Holocaust, so that future generations do not have to ever live through such attrocities.
• I have been there and I will never forget...
• As a teacher, I will do my utmost to remind students that these crimes against humanity
actually took place (they are not fiction or fabrication of a fertile imagination).
• We have an obligation to honour all those who lost their lives in the Holocaust, millions
who were unable to fulfil their potential.
• We have to fight against all forms of intolerance and hatred. Only by doing so can we
avoid similar acts of inhumanity.
Cristina Tomé
 • http://auschwitz.org/en/home-page75/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1t_h6i35OM

• 75th anniversary of the liberation of German

Nazi concentration and extermination camps
• Auschwitz
27th January 2020
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/25/world/europe/auschwitz-liberation-75th-
anniversary.html

Amid a surge of anti-Semitism and a rise in

dehumanizing political rhetoric, there is fear that
the horrific lessons of the death camp are being
lost.
 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7915119/75th-anniversary-
liberation-former-Nazi-Germany-concentration-camp-Auschwitz.html
Images made available by the Auschwitz Memorial and
Museum
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdkBsiglJY0

Video: The last survivors of Auschwitz — 75

years later | AFP
 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/dec/02/ceija-stojka-
holocaust-survivor-art-goes-on-display

She worked against forgetting: Holocaust

survivor's art goes on display
 https://www.annefrank.org/en/education/product/132/video-the-short-life-of-
anne-frank/

Video: The short life of Anne Frank

https://www.newsweek.com/holocaust-remembrance-day-quotes-tributes-nazi-
victims-879579

Holocaust Remembrance Day Quotes: Eight

tributes to Nazi Victims
i.pining.com
Flickr.com
 Autor: Picasa

Compiled by: Cristina Tomé