At a memorial event with a concentration camp survivor to liberate the concentration camps Beech forest And a young participant triggered a scandal 80 years ago. At the presentation of a French-German youth project in English, she spoke of a “genocide” in Palestine. Some guests expressed their displeasure with boos.
The director of the Memorials Buchenwald and Mittelbau -Dora Foundation, Jens Christian Wagner, intervened directly: It had to be mourned there for the innocently killed – but in a place like Buchenwald from one «genocide“To speak, it doesn’t matter. The ambassador of Israel, Ron Prosor, also came to the wreath.
The young participant had talked about the fact that Buchenwald would have to be drawn from Buchenwald – and you still have to be loud today in the event of injustices.
Only a few concentration camps left
Previously, the 92-year-old Naftali Prince, survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camp, spoke there. “We are very few, soon we will finally pass on the staff of memory and we will give them a historical responsibility,” said Fürst to the listeners. According to the Foundation, nine concentration camps were in the wreath resolution.
Since the summer of 1937, the National Socialists had abducted around 280,000 people to the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar and its 139 outer camps. 56,000 people were murdered or died of hunger, diseases, through forced labor or medical experiments. US troops reached the camp on April 11, 1945.
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