Memorial Day has a date 27 January. Recurrence that is traced is the day when Soviet soldiers of the army of the first Ukrainian front, led by Marshal Koniev, entered the Auschwitz extermination camp. Were the 15. Found there still 7.000 prisoners, abandoned by fleeing Nazis considered sick. To erase traces Hitler's soldiers had blasted three crematoria the previous nights. This was the picture of that day. Behind the pictures you pararono before the eyes of Soviet soldiers there was something even more unheard of, This is the project of death that had led humanity to the abyss. The final solution was the name of the Nazi project in those fields full of horror and inhumanity, but mostly madness. Was the main result of the Nuremberg laws enacted in 1935. A complex project that swept across Europe and sinking its roots in anti-Semitism in the previous century, in theories of Arianism by Adolf Hitler, in rickety German World War I responsibilities interpretations made by the Fuhrer. First the Jews were “invited” to leave Germany, then things get more serious Government generally and venné realized the physical extermination. Jews were excluded from all public apparatus of German social life up to regard them not persons but pieces. They were joined by all social categories considered weak or not be constrained to Nazi parameters of’ Aryan man. The time that runs nonstop took several witnesses. The risk that the memory fade, that habituation to images of violence stemming from the cinema and literature can decrease the weight of historical and civic’ Holocaust is great. So this day was established. Because consciences can remain that feeling that produces respect among peoples. Recently they are propagated feelings of hatred in the world, which differently led to the death and destruction. As if the sacrifice of 6 millions of Jews and, more generally, 55 millions of people is just a statistic and belong to one of the many tragedies of the past. Educating the new generations to accept in the world others with respect is our daily task to decrease this risk. The lesson of 27 January is for everyone, bar none.
Hector Parker
