Auschwitz survivors warn of rising hatred

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5. Memorializing the Holocaust Needs to Go Beyond Auschwitz

... the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public exclusion to eventual internment to finally extermination. Millions of regular Germans—and Europeans more broadly—facilitated or silently accepted these actions.

As Holocaust survivor Marian Turski warned five years ago at Auschwitz, this sort of indifference in the face of discrimination risks people not even noticing when “an Auschwitz-like catastrophe suddenly befalls you and your descendants” ...

https://time.com/7210222/auschwitz-anniversary-holocaust-memorials-future/