Robert Williams

2 months ago | usnews.com | Robert Williams |Deborah E. Lipstadt |Pinchas Goldschmidt

As we commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day today and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, we find ourselves at a critical juncture in history. There are likely fewer than 200,000 Holocaust survivors still alive, based on 2023 statistics. There has been a steep decline in the number of survivors in the past decade, and only 56 survivors of Auschwitz were able to attend today’s ceremony at the former German camp site in Poland.