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Anne Frank, Otto Frank and Primo Levi
are names most people know about.

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These are three names out of
at least 1.3 million people

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who were prisoners in Auschwitz.

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From 1940 to January 1945, Nazi Germany
used Auschwitz as a concentration

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and extermination camp.

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First Auschwitz was used
to hold Polish prisoners,

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but later the SS used it as an
extermination camp to commit murder

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on Roma, Sinti and Jews
from all over Europe.

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Approximately 1.1 million
people were murdered here.

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And one out of six Jews murdered in
the Holocaust were killed in Auschwitz,

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mainly in gas chambers.

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These are only numbers and
facts, and hard to imagine.

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But what does the
Holocaust actually mean?

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Nazi ideology, based on racism
and hating everyone not German,

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especially Jews, Slavs and Gypsies,
was the main point to commit the Holocaust.

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At the beginning of the
war, Nazi Germany

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was segregating Jews and
resettled them into ghettos.

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After that, the Nazis decided to
exterminate the Jewish population,

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which they called “final solution”
or the “Jewish question”.

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Nazi Germany took the first step to
make the Holocaust more industrialized

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by building concentration
and extermination camps.

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The second step was to transport the Jews
from the whole of Europe to these camps.

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Most of the camps were
located in occupied Poland.

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In the Holocaust,
at least six million Jews were murdered.

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This was two thirds of all the
Jewish population in Europe.

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Before the war,
half of them were residents of Poland.

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Holocaust for me means
the suffering of victims

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and the classification
of human beings –

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things were so cruel that people
around the world couldn’t believe it.

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If you were one of those people, would
you believe what happened in Auschwitz?

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Personally for me, Holocaust is
crimes not only against the Jews

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but against the
whole human world.

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Humanity has never known such
atrocities before the Second World War.

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This dark page of history can tell
us not only about statistics of death

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but also about
people’s destinies.

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It’s about their life stories
which have been cut off too early.

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Suffering, pain and death.

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These are the three main words I
would use to describe the Holocaust.

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The Holocaust was one of the
biggest war crimes in history.

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It shows us the darkest
sides of human behaviour

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and should always be a warning
to mankind about how far

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populism,
hate and racism can lead.

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Perhaps I will never understand
how this could happen.

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But I hope such a cruel crime will
never happen again in the future.

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And I will do everything to
prevent it from happening again.