Holocaust survivors said Sunday that the world must not forget about the Nazi atrocities. This event marked the 80th anniversary of Ravensbrueck’s liberation.

The event was attended by around 1,200 people, including nine camp survivors in their 80s and 90s, as well as former officials and relatives.

Lili Keller Rosenberg, a French Jewish woman who was sent to a concentration camps at the age of 11, is an exceptional survivor. She considers her survival “exceptional”, and “a great vengeance on the Nazis “.

Judith, 93 years old, said: “We never imagined we would survive this long.” She spent more than a year in Ravensbrueck before being sent on to Bergen-Belsen.

She was determined to tell her story to young people to prevent the same mistakes from happening again. “These young people must fight racism, an affliction and anti-Semitism. “

A smaller male prisoner camp was built next to Ravensbrueck.

The camp held not only Jews but also political opponents, Roma and criminals.

Left its Mark

Between 20,000 and 35, 000 people died. Prisoners were forced to work 14 hours a day. Other prisoners died in gas chambers or during a death marche.

Ravensbrueck was liberated by the Soviet Red Army on April 30, 1945, and found only a small number of sick prisoners.

Ingelore is a German survivor from Ravensbrueck, who spoke on Sunday. She said she had “no memory of fear, hunger or cold” when she was in the camp.

To the guests’ applause she said, “I think that this experience left a lasting impression on my mind and my body.”

The AfD, a far-right party in Germany, is gaining support. This has led to growing concerns about future Holocaust commemorations. In the February national polls, the AfD was ranked as the second-largest party.

The German intelligence service last week designated the party as an extremist organization. Some of its members have been against the tradition of remembering past events.

At a ceremony Saturday to mark the liberation of the Neuengamme concentration camp in Hamburg, Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned that “autocrats, extremists and populists around the world, including in our own countries, want to attack and destroy this peaceful and united Europe.

“We can’t allow this to happen.”

In this year’s celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi camps and other important events that led up to the end of World War II, Germany held several ceremonies.