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Tatiana Bucci, a Holocaust survivor, appealed on Tuesday in the European Parliament for all the world's children to be able to live in peace and grow old. Bucci recalled the post‑war years and closed her speech with a message of hope: “Despite everything, life is beautiful”.
The Assembly of the Republic opens an exhibition on Aristides Sousa Mendes, Carlos Sampaio Garrido and Alberto Branquinho, who issued visas to refugees during the Holocaust.
The liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz took place 80 years ago. A date that the European Parliament commemorates with the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.
Poetry erupts in a place where everything seemed forbidden. It is not poetry that betrays Auschwitz; it is the absolute silence that would consummate the executioners' victory. Song proves that the soul cannot be imprisoned.
The killer's face had already been known, but his name remained hidden. Using AI, a historian identified the man executing a Jewish man in a 1941 photograph taken in Ukraine.
For 40 years she remained silent. Afterwards, the stepdaughter of Anne Frank’s father never stopped speaking out, telling her Auschwitz story and campaigning for peace, against intolerance and antisemitism.
