“The stories that you hear are just unreal and unbelievable and you have to talk,” Wartski, who was born about 100 miles from the camp, told Fox News ahead of his trip to Poland. “There is nothing stronger than to walk around Auschwitz and to see what happened to them,” Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, told Fox News ahead of Monday’s anniversary. Speaking at Israel’s Yad Vashem The World Holocaust Remembrance Center on Thursday, Vice President Pence vowed that never again shall the world allow the atrocities committed by the Nazis to be repeated. Jews were persecuted and were put to death,” Irene Buchman, 95, an Auschwitz survivor, told Fox News from her home in New Jersey. HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY: FEW AMERICANS KNOW THE DEATH TOLL, POLL FINDSThis 75th anniversary comes as there has been a spike in anti-Semitic sentiment around the world.

Source: Fox News January 27, 2020 14:08 UTC