Ceremonies mark liberation of 2 Nazi camps 70 years ago
Source: AP
BERLIN (AP) — Holocaust survivors and officials have gathered at the memorial site of the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany to commemorate the liberation of the camp seventy years ago.
The camp was liberated on April 15, 1945 by British soldiers who found some 10,000 dead bodies when they entered the Nazi camp.
German President Joachim Gauck honored the British soldiers as "ambassadors of a democratic culture who were not looking for revenge."
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in the world now is of great concern as Ronald Lauder stated at this ceremony.
I purchased a copy of Anne Frank's diary with a forward by Eleanor Roosevelt yesterday when visiting the inspiring and solemn national memorials to WWII and FDR with friends in the Capital. It was a glorious day.
Anne Frank attended a Montessori school in Holland. I thought the memorable diary would be a wonderful gift for a young relative who was educated by the same progressive school system and whose mother is a Montessori School Director. Our relatives were soldiers who fought Nazi forces in Germany in WWII, liberated Dachau and served in Korea after that which she knows and appreciates.
When young I also read Anne's diary and it had a profound effect. Anne's courage, her moving and intimate writings of a tender young life limited by terror and oppression under Nazi occupation of Holland left a lasting impression on me like millions of others. The cruel fate of her suffering and death at Bergen-Belsen is a testament to the capacity for atrocity that stains all humanity.
As time passes and in the face of denial, history revision and renewed racism we must remember lives like Anne's and millions of others and the truth of the Holocaust, its brutality and cost to the world. And never, ever forget it.
