Return to Auschwitz: 'I want the world to remember us'

返回奥斯威辛:“我希望世界记住我们”

The Global Story

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2025-01-27

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It’s 80 years since the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated. As we commemorate the memory of the six million Jews and other groups murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust, a survivor of Auschwitz tells us why it’s more important than ever to remember what happened there. On today's episode Lucy Hockings speaks to Tova Friedman, an American author and therapist, and one of the youngest Auschwitz survivors. Tova arrived at the extermination camp at the age of just five years old. She now speaks to young people in person and via TikTok about how she survived a year in Auschwitz as a very young child. The Global Story brings you trusted insights from BBC journalists worldwide. We want your ideas, stories and experiences to help us understand and tell #TheGlobalStory. Email us at theglobalstory@bbc.com You can also message us or leave a voice note via WhatsApp on +44 330 123 9480. Producers: Alice Aylett Roberts and Beth Timmins Sound engineer: Dafydd Evans and Mike Regaard Assistant editor: Sergi Forcada Freixas Senior news editor: China Collins
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  • It's 80 years today since the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated.

  • As we commemorate the memory of these 6 million Jews and other groups murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust, a survivor of Auschwitz tells us why it's more important than ever to remember what happened there.

  • The true horror of what happened in concentration camps across Europe is almost too difficult, too distressing to comprehend.

  • Many of those who entered Auschwitz and other camps when they were first liberated couldn't believe what they saw there.

  • I have just returned from the Belsen concentration camp.

  • I find it hard to describe adequately the horrible things that I've seen and heard.

  • The first broadcaster to enter one of these camps was the BBC war correspondent, Richard Dimbleby.

  • I passed through the barrier and found myself in the world of a nightmare.

  • His eyewitness account depicts a scene of such unimaginable horror.

  • The BBC was initially reluctant to broadcast it because at this point, nobody in the wider world had seen or heard of what was happening behind the gates of these camps.

  • One woman, distraught to the point of madness, flung herself at a British soldier.

  • She begged him to give her some milk for the tiny baby she held in her arms.

  • She put the baby in his arms and ran off, crying that she would find milk for it because there was no milk in her breast.