World leaders will be attending the ceremony at Auschwitz on Monday including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Britain’s King Charles III.
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00:00People around the world are paying tribute to the victims of the Holocaust on its 80th
00:07anniversary. Prime Minister of the Netherlands Dick Schoof, along with hundreds of people,
00:12attended a Holocaust commemoration in Amsterdam on Sunday, held at the Auschwitz Memorial
00:18in Woutenpark.
00:20Jacques Grishever from the Dutch Auschwitz Committee reflects on the enduring pain of
00:25the Holocaust.
00:27The pain has not disappeared, but it has given me the strength to fight for a world where
00:33Auschwitz is not only a promise, but also a reality. Auschwitz is more than a commemoration,
00:42it is an assignment.
00:46Auschwitz survivor Barbara Donecka, who was 10 years old at the time, carries the memory
00:51of those who perished in the camps, especially her 4-year-old friend Helena. Shaken by Helena's
00:57death, she returns to the camp to pay tribute.
01:12Nazi Germany claimed over 6 million Jewish lives, but also millions of others, including
01:18Poles, Roma and Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war, gay people and others targeted for elimination
01:24in Adolf Hitler's racial ideology.