Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a statement on Sunday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Nazi German camp in Auschwitz Birkenau, the 80th anniversary of January 27, 1945.
“We remember 6 million Jews who have been systematically killed throughout Europe by the Nazi and their collaborators, and millions of killed. We have survived the surviving people. Thank you to the liberator, update the commitment of human freedom and justice. ” statement I said.
“This year is 80 years from the end of World War II and the end of the Holocaust, which may be one of the last year when survivors can share the witness testimony of the fear they have experienced.” did.
“As Secretary of State, I will continue the unwavering commitment of supporting the Holocaust survivors and their heirs, as I went to the U.S. in the United States,” he concluded. Rubio was a Senator from Florida from 2011 to 2025, led the State Department to President Donald Trump.
The AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU facility was the largest facility in the Nazi death camp in World War II. At the camp, when the first Ukrainian front on January 27, 1945 was released by the 60th Army from the Soviet Red Army by the Soviet Red Army, there were about 7,000 prisoners in the camp.
“It was a historical paradox that the soldiers who officially represent Stalinist's totalitarianism have brought freedom to the Nazi totalitarian prisoners,” said the Auschwitz Birknau monument and a museum. observation For memories of the day of release.
The Liberator found that the retired Nazi army had shot and killed hundreds of prisoners when he escaped, and some of the other POWs died in a crisis of rescue. After completing the exhausted military attack, Soviet Union discovered Auschwitz Birkenau's camp by accident, lacking a terrible discovery media coverage, and its importance was not immediately understood.
united nations Establishment The date of the release of Auschwitz Birkenau as the 2005 Holocaust memory day. The establishment of the UN resolution called for all member states to praise 6 million Jews and other minorities killed by the Nazis.
As the statement of Secretary Rubio stated, the Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial Hall and Museum had long invited the Holocaust survivors to the annual ceremony, but over the years, the survivors of them. There are few things left. 56 people came to Auschwitz on Monday. Perhaps a thousand people live around the world.
Alexander Avram, a researcher of YAD Vashem (The World Holocaust Remembrance Center) I said NBC News Monday's team competes with time to create a comprehensive “name hall” that lists all Holocaust victims before the last survivor dies.
AVRAM states that most victims had no cemetery or tombstone, so his team was to use artificial intelligence to wash out the documents of millions of pages at the same time and find the name of the victim. I did it. A lot of knowledge of the Holocaust is in the heart of the survivors, so it may not be enough for AI to win the race. Many of that knowledge were not recorded on paper, and many of the documents were destroyed in war.
AVRAM said that all names that could recover YAD Vashem were “another victory against the Nazis.”
Some survivors gathered in Auschwitz Birkenau on Monday I said They suspected that there was a large gathering of the Holocaust survivors.
“We are always a minority, and now it's just a handful,” said 98 -year -old survivors Marian Tulusky.
The rest of the survivors had the opportunity to oppose the hatred of anti -Semitism and genocide. Russians were particularly absent from the ceremony at Auschwitz Birkenau. Russians have not been invited since Russia was invaded by Ukraine in 2022.
“The evils trying to destroy the whole country still remain in the world,” said Ukrainian President Voldimil Zerensky, who attended the ceremony.
“We always remember that Soviet soldiers have won this terrible, complete evil.
