Jewish and Muslim leaders from Germany led a memorial for the victims of the Auschwitz death camp on the 74th anniversary of Nazi deportations from the Litzmannstadt ghetto. The ceremony was part of an educational tour.
Rabbi Henry Brandt and Aiman Mazyek, of the Central Council of Muslims spoke at the entrance to Auschwitz at a memorial on Thursday for the victims of the Nazi death camp.
Mazyek said in his speech: “We promise that with our strength, with the strength of our faith, together will we work so there will ‘never again be Auschwitz.'”
For his part, Brandt said “I am deeply impressed that Muslims and Jews are here together.” He said he hoped that the young people present would learn lessons for life from their visit.
The commemoration was the main event of an educational trip organized by the Central Council of Muslims and the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany. Muslim refugees from Syria and Iraq and young Jewish people also took part.
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The state premiers of Thuringia and Schleswig Holstein, Bodo Ramelow and Daniel Günther, laid wreaths.
Memorial for the Litzmannstadt ghetto
The service of remembrance was held on the 74th anniversary of the start of deportations by Nazi German forces to Auschwitz of people from the Litzmannstadt ghetto in Lodz.
In three weeks in August 1944, 67,000 people were transported to the death camp and about 45,000 were killed in the gas chambers.
The Litzmannstadt ghetto had been established by Nazi German forces after they invaded Poland in 1939. It was turned into an industrial center making war supplies and was the second-largest ghetto in German-occupied Europe after Warsaw. About 40,000 more people were sent to Litzmannstadt from the local region and from other parts of Nazi-occupied Europe.
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