designed in the fifty's by survivors who focused on the fates of victims pictures of the perpetrators were hardly bearable for them but in the future their history will be included as well when we asked one of the most important educational questions about the story by absence which is the question why does not the story about the victims does is the story about people who accepted this ideology chose to join the nazi party cho chose to join the s.s. and day where here and they were working and at the same time they were bringing up their children. it's been 75 years since auschwitz was liberated germany is now providing a total of $120000000.00 euros to support the site to ensure the horrors of the holocaust on not forgotten. and standing by for us live from auschwitz we have our chief political editor may have the question who has been following the commemoration for us today 75 years on mahela what was germany's role today at the ceremony because i mean we saw images of the german president funk steinmeier he

was there what was the focus. yes it really was representing germany and there there was a real novelty that we saw last week when for the 1st time a head of state the german president was at the yad vashem memorial and was allowed to speak there he made a rather momentous speech certainly that's how it was also perceived in israel but also in germany saying he stood there laden with guilt and wishing that he could say that this could never happen again that jim you somewhat inoculated against something like not since i'm like right wing extremism but that was the case today had a more passive role representing the germany here but there was a lot of symbolism he met 3 survivors this morning in berlin and they came on his presidential plane with him to the ceremony today and chancellor angela merkel

however noticeably absent she's going to attend a memorial concert tonight in berlin why did she attended its day. well it's kind of a local course to us that the highest representative of germany was here flanked by a. frankly technically also out ranks the german chancellor and she was here though for the very 1st time in her life only at the end of last year she's been to other concentration camps but that was the 1st times she visited auschwitz then the question was why did she come so late almost 14 years into chancery at the same time i spoke to jewish representatives here and she's considered to be a true ally and in tackling anti semitism and the symbolism of her visit to our streets was in. context with the attack that germany saw in the town of holland last october only 8 weeks before she came to auschwitz where a man tried to enter synagogue failed to enter luckily but then killed 2 innocent

bystanders are going to machall was recently also by the jewish community in germany so the question here wasn't really asked by the jewish representatives who were present michela we heard so many messages at the ceremony today and i'm just wondering which one stuck out the most to you. well from the one survivor polish journalist who said that auschwitz didn't fall from the scar you actually thereby quoted the austrian president who said that earlier and he said that he didn't really want to go into the details of his suffering and then address particularly younger generation saying that unless you watch out for those subtle signs of minorities being seen as somewhat separate from society then you might not even see the next hour shits falling from the sky and that is the message really here today that this could happen again and that people

cannot turn away when they see indifference towards minorities people being treated as not an integral part. of society any form of discrimination whether it's anti semitism or any other form of racism and this i've experienced throughout the last couple of days here that the weight of responsibility on the shoulders of the very few survivors here not just to bear testimony but with a clear focus on future generations and how to convey the message to watch out for those early signs this all against the backdrop of a rise in anti semitism here in europe at the moment did have your chief political editor may hear of the thank you while they were old and a few but they came from far and wide back to where the place where they were supposed to die and the survivors of the auschwitz extermination camp joined world leaders today at the site in poland to mark the occasion.

reliving the horrors of auschwitz. the agony etched over his face. and yet despite the pain these holocaust survivors have returned to this form a death camp to remind the world where anti semitism and racism can lead. in front of the gates of auschwitz known as the gates of death a commemoration ceremony in which delegates from $61.00 countries are taking part and $200.00 auschwitz survived is each with that terrible memories of what happened here. she was there to make it 2 women trucks from the barracks to

a gas chamber i can hear. her screaming i could hear it in my subconscious when i remember in the event just like you go you. elza baker who's blind was 8 when she arrived at auschwitz she was one of the 23000 sinti and roma people to put it here it isn't it oh not for me to to be here in monks so many people who have suffered so blatantly perhaps even much more so than oh i. and. i think. if you. don't know. it i'm upset. but in spite of the past anti

semitism is on the rise again in 2020. we hear this say i was the nazi you saw effectively in the propaganda they said jews have too much power do to control the economy and the media jews control government has jews control everything we have this madness. in the media and even within democratic governments. these brave men and women know the cost of anti semitism they can't fake at banks it already seems that too many listening. let's get more now on this historic ceremony we are joined by john barrack here in the studio john you have been to auschwitz many times you have reported from there or you have seen other commemorations there what stood out to you must. the survivors

i think my 1st visit to our streets i sensed in the bus the 1st time i'd met survivors personally sat in the bus with survivors. and it struck me i was initially astonished because i thought what extraordinarily strong people they they were quite old them course what struck stormily reliably and they how they would manage the evening great get on the bus quite strongly with very outgoing and chatty and and i was astonished by it and then i saw it on reflection i thought it's actually not so strange these are very just think about it somebody who survived it who had the courage afterwards to start a new life in another country often learn a new language to marry to have the color just to start a family. to be able to a serve life in that way these are very very special people and i think without

taking on one in particular i would say this is what was most moving for me to seeing that again it was familiar to me this this experience part familiar to see people moved so moved to tears that at times they couldn't speak but at the same time with this extraordinary person residual resilience of energy and big really came to the table today also with some very proactive very pointed messages for the public especially for the youth who are listening and they were so much concerned about the next generation we heard from from the 1st survivor hers who spoke she talked about the importance of education she talked about the importance of especially of early education she says people need to be taught about the horrors of the holocaust much much earlier and also the importance of the truth and all of our responsibility to stand up when we hear lies what do you make of that well i think i do i think it's really absolutely relevant it's really pleased me that they

place the emphasis here because i think that much we know often when there's a top down attempt to educate people it does push back understandably particular from young people it's not true and healthy for adolescents to reject ideas that come from an establishment it needs to be at the peer group it needs it needs young people to be in soused with the with the vision of a society which is not racist a society which is inclusive which doesn't exclude minorities and and and it's discriminate against them so that that that was very moving and i i think that it was really the central and most valuable thing that came out of this one has to remember also the reason they do this is because they are aware themselves these people they're not going to be among us very much longer and that this is their legacy. but our fits they will still be these artifacts that that are very very moving in the exhibition they will be conserved and they will be video recordings

of these people's testimonies but they themselves will no longer be here they are passing on the baton of tolerance and inclusiveness and the vision of an inclusive loving society. to the young people and that is that that was very obviously something that was very close to their hearts just what do you make of the efforts to preserve that history now because i mean as you're mentioning you know the fact that they're in advanced age right now these are really their final years these survivors they won't be around anymore so talk with us a little bit more about you know efforts by society current trends i mean because anti-semitism for example is on the rise. it's a very difficult issue to because in the modern world of course in the digital world it mostly occurs. in social media where people feel protected and where hate speech is a general problem it's not simply and to semitism anti semitism is an aspect of

that. and because we live i think it at a time in history when there is a sort of crisis of certainty us where people feel very very insecure about many things in that there is a tendency for people then to look for scapegoats and i think that this is why we have to be securely careful at this time and why the message of our ships today was so important to barack thank you so much john. you've been watching the news i'll be back in a few minutes with the latest headlines and for that you can always get the latest news and information on our website around the clock that is at deep dot com more news at the top of the hour.

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