The Nazis murdered 6 million Jews and many others during the Holocaust, including at concentration camps like Auschwitz in Poland, shown above. Wiesel was a teenager at that time and was imprisoned with his father, who died before liberation. Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel wrote this in his memoir, Night, which described his experiences in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.' He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. 'For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. Anne Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Her father Otto, who was the lone survivor of the eight people who were hiding in the annex, published his daughter's diary after the war ended. 'In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.' After more than two years, the group was discovered and sent to the Auschwitz death camp. She kept it while she and her family were hiding in an attic-often referred to as a 'secret annex'-in Amsterdam during the Netherlands' period of Nazi occupation. 'Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.'Īnne Frank wrote this in her diary, which would later be published as T he Diary of a Young Girl, one of the most famous published diaries in modern history. To remember those who were lost, here are some quotes about the Holocaust, from victims, survivors and observers of the horrors. Like many Jewish holidays, the day of remembrance begins at sunset on the evening before. Yom HaShoah typically falls on the Hebrew calendar on the 27th of the month Nisan, which this year translates to April 12. These people were shot, starved, gassed and tortured. Six million Jews were methodically murdered, as well as hundreds of thousands of Roma, homosexuals, disabled people, political opponents and other victims.

Under the direction of German Führer Adolf Hitler, the Nazis controlled large sections of Europe during World War II and operated numerous death camps. Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known by its Hebrew name Yom HaShoah, is on Thursday and is a time meant for reflection of the events of the Holocaust, which killed millions of Jews in systematic and cruel ways.

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