“Packed day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust”
“It is 74 years since prisoners were freed from nazi extermination camps Auschwitz-Birkenau. In Sweden the attention to the commemoration in the year with over 100 events, including the traditional ljuständning at the Raoul Wallenberg square in Stockholm.”
“The growing anti-semitism and racism the world over contributes to this year’s program is intense, according to Ingrid Lomfors, director at the living history Forum.”
“– It becomes a kind of counterforce to pay attention to, we have this in our society, and we need to respond against it.”
“– anti-Semitism is a threat to the entire democratic society – we know that hatred towards a group of feeding hatred against one another. the universal message of the Holocaust that this is something that affects everyone, ” she says.”
“To take the survivors’ voices are a part of the work to historieförnekande, and as it usually involved survivors during the commemoration. This year is the Hania Rosenberg, who survived the Holocaust as children, who are involved in the commemoration of Raoul Wallenberg square.”
“The american historian Deborah Lipstadt, known from the movie”
“Even in the Great synagogue in Stockholm involved survivor. Association of Holocaust survivors share out the prize to someone who worked against anti-semitism and xenophobia and that seems to preserve the memory of the Holocaust. At the commemoration also involved the crown princess Victoria and prime minister Stefan Löfven.”
“Over 100 events are held in total across the country.”
“In Malmö is being commemorated the day under the heading”
“Gothenburg has this year moved the manifestation”
“At libraries, in churches and other premises activities are under way with the Holocaust and anti-semitism as a theme. Among other things, shown the download miniutställningen ”
“the Holocaust is a term for the nazi genocide of jews during the second world war 1939-1945. In addition to the jews, fell the roma, homosexuals and other groups by the nazis classed as ”
“About six million jews were killed according to the UN’s official figure, nearly half are in the big camps and gettona. In addition to the jews killed an estimated 4-5 million roma, political prisoners, prisoners of war and others.”
“On January 27, addressed officially in the calendar as Holocaust remembrance day to honor the victims of the holocaust. It was the day in 1945 that soviet troops liberated the extermination camp Auschwitz–Birkenau in Poland.”
