(ANSA-AFP) - BELGRADE, JAN 27 - In what was expected to be
one of the last addresses by a Holocaust survivor to the German
parliament, Inge Auerbacher appealed Thursday to keep alive the
victims' memory. Fighting back tears as she recalled the
suffering and loss she endured at the hands of the Nazis,
Auerbacher told the Bundestag as it marked International
Holocaust Remembrance Day that it was essential to fight the
spreading "cancer" of hatred. "I have lived in New York for 75
years and can still remember well this terrible time of terror
and hate," said Auerbacher, 87, who flew to Berlin in the face
of the pandemic to take part in the ceremonies. "Unfortunately
this cancer has resurfaced and hatred of Jews is common in many
countries of the world including Germany," she said on the 77th
anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. "This
sickness must be healed as soon as possible," she said to
applause from MPs, Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his cabinet.
(ANSA-AFP).
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