
Congress set to observe 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

WASHINGTON, DC — THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AUSCHWITZ LIBERATION will be recognized at a Congressional ceremony taking place Thursday evening, Jan. 23. The event commemorates the Jan. 27, 1945 liberation by the soldiers of the 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front, who opened the gates of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, the largest that the German Nazis were operating, according to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum website.
The website said, “The prisoners greeted them as authentic liberators. It was a paradox of history that soldiers formally representing Stalinist totalitarianism brought freedom to the prisoners of Nazi totalitarianism.”
The keynote speaker is Ninetta Matsa Feldman, a Greek Holocaust survivor with a family member who belongs to the East Midwood Jewish Center in Brooklyn. Feldman lost approximately 127 family members killed in Auschwitz. Speakers at this bipartisan annual commemoration will include Congressmember Dan Goldman (D-NY10) and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). The service will stream on YouTube.
The sponsoring organization — Sephardic Heritage International DC — joins the Congressional Holocaust Commemoration Committee, members of the diplomatic community and survivors, for the event.
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