(JEWISH GROUP) The Holocaust was real, it happened and we shouldn't forget it

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Holocaust survivors walk outside the gate of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, in 2015.
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On Jan. 27, 1945, elements of the Soviet Army’s 1 Ukrainian Front entered Auschwitz-Birkenau. They discovered overwhelming evidence of mass murder: four large-scale gas chambers, four crematoria with a total of forty-six ovens, seven tons of human hair, hundreds of thousands of men’s suits and women’s clothing items, and vast numbers of eyeglasses, shoes and personal belongings.

The main camp opened on June 14, 1940, when 728 political prisoners were transferred from a prison in Tarnów, Poland. Birkenau, where the majority of the victims were murdered, became operational in March 1942. In the 48 months between opening and the day it was liberated, approximately 1.1 million people were murdered in the Auschwitz camp complex, a million of whom were Jews.

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Eisenhower felt it was essential that the camps be documented, to counter future denial, ensuring firsthand evidence existed to prove the atrocities if people later claimed they were propaganda, believing the horror was too great to be imagined and needed undeniable proof for future generations and historians.

His concern was prescient. Despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, 81 years after Auschwitz was liberated, a growing number of Americans are unsure the Holocaust ever happened. About 20% of Americans aged 18-29 believe the Holocaust is a myth or that the number of people killed has been exaggerated. Nazi flags fly at political rallies and individuals sport tattoos of swastikas and other Nazi symbols. Antisemitism is on the rise for an alarmingly high segment of our population. So too, intolerance of immigrants by those who seem to forget we are a nation built by immigrants. For the most part, immigrants coming to America are honest, hard-working individuals looking for a better life. Many escaping war and violence are simply looking for a safe place to raise their families.

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