Survivors of the Holocaust visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz on Monday (January 26), one day ahead of ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of its liberation.
Those gathered in front of the gate with the inscription “Work sets you free,“offering a false promise of freedom, are some of the last people left alive to tell their story.
At a ceremony attended by heads of state on Tuesday (January 27), they will be delivering the speeches, but today they remain bitter that their voice is not heard.
“Some of the people still saying that it (the Holocaust) never happened. I’m here to tell the world it happened. And I’m strong enough, and I’m a victor. And the world has to learn from it and to live in peace,” said survivor from Canada, Mordechai Ronen.
He and almost 300 others have come to revisit the horrors of Auschwitz with one goal in mind – to keep its memory alive.
The German occupiers built the Auschwitz camp in 1940 as a place of incarceration for the Polish priso
