This is why, paradoxically, the more the years go by, the more important the commemoration becomes.” “Especially in the eyes of the younger generations of Europeans. “More and more distant, more and more abstract,” Michel said. “Hatred, racism and antisemitism must not be the last word in history.”Ĭharles Michel, the head of the EU Council bringing together leaders of the 27 EU member countries, said that with each passing year, the Holocaust “inches towards becoming a historical event.” “We must be vigilant and not look the other way as we did then,” she said. A year before, her mother and brother were deported to Auschwitz and killed. She was arrested in 1944 and brought to Theresienstadt, now part of the Czech Republic. Gathered at the European Parliament, EU lawmakers listened to 100-year-old Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlander’s ordeal.
I apologize that your grandfather was murdered here,” Nehammer said. “I apologize, on behalf of the republic of Austria, for the crimes committed here. The two men hugged each other during the memorial service. He was joined by Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer. Rest in peace, grandfather, you won,” he said. Instead, the Jewish state is the future, and Mauthausen is a museum. “The Nazis thought they were the future, and that Jews would be something you only find in a museum. “Grandpa Bela, a quiet man whose family nickname was ‘Bela the Wise,’ sent me here today to say on his behalf, that the Jews have not surrendered,” Lapid said. In Austria, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid paid an emotional visit to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where his grandfather, Bela Lampel, was murdered in 1945. Both emphasized the “inestimable value of transmitting the memory of the past to the young, even in its most painful aspects, to not repeat the same tragedies.” the Vatican said. In Rome, Pope Francis met Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck, a Hungarian-born writer and poet who survived Nazi death camps and settled in Italy. Levy said that Israel and Germany experienced “an exceptional journey on the way to reconciliation and establishing relations and brave friendship between us.” Israel’s parliamentary speaker, Mickey Levy, broke down in tears in the Bundestag while reciting the Jewish mourner’s prayer from a prayer book that belonged to a German Jewish boy who celebrated his bar mitzvah on the eve of Kristallnacht, an outburst of anti-Jewish violence in 1938. “Our country bears a special responsibility - the genocide against the European Jews is a German crime,” Bas said in the German parliament, the Bundestag.
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