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Why is the Topf & Sons – Builders of the Auschwitz Ovens – Place of Remembrance important to you?

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In a word: Lest we forget!

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There are still many, many people who would like to forget,

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who’d like to draw a line under the whole thing,

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without even knowing what exactly.

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Who in Germany doesn’t know about Auschwitz;

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who doesn’t know about Topf & Sons?

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Lots of people don’t,

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and that’s why I hope it will exist for a long, long, long time to come.

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Along with its organization, with its circle of patrons.

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 So no one can say: I didn’t know.

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The least I can do is support that cause.

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Today I think back to the time

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 when I looked at those damn kids, those squatters on the devastated company grounds,

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 and what they managed to do with their commemorative posters.

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I always had a lot of respect for that.

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I remember having a conversation with the mayor at the time,

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 and he wasn’t very happy about the whole thing.

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But I didn’t let that affect me.

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 I always kept to my own path.