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Marking Holocaust Memorial Day

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.2929 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

80 years ago today, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi death camps, marking the beginning of the end of the Holocaust. Some of those who survived the Holocaust later survived the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, including Zvi Solow, who fled Poland, Italy, and Greece during World War II. He speaks to Paula Newton from southern Israel. Also on today's show: Zahra Joya, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Rukhshana Media; Jonathan Blitzer, Staff Writer, The New Yorker  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello everyone and welcome to Amampur. Here's what's coming up. On Holocaust Memorial Day, we hear stories of resistance.

0:42.3

First, from double survivor Zvi Solo, who survived both the Holocaust and the October 7th Hamas attack.

0:50.3

Then, from our archive, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel on the fight to prevent future atrocities.

0:57.1

Plus, my conversation with journalist Zara Joya on documenting the struggle for women's rights in Afghanistan.

1:05.1

And Harri Shrinivassan speaks to New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer about week one of Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

1:13.6

A warm welcome to the program, everyone.

1:32.2

I'm Pauline in New York, sitting in for Christana Manpur.

1:36.2

80 years ago today, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi death

1:42.2

camps.

1:42.7

Now, it marked the beginning of the end of the Holocaust,

1:46.0

the murder of 6 million Jews alongside members of the LGBTQ community, Roma, and of course other targeted groups.

1:56.0

In 2007, Christian visited Auschwitz for a documentary on genocide called Scream Bloody Murder.

2:03.6

Here is a reminder of the horrors that happened there and the tireless work of one man,

2:08.6

Rafael Lemkin, to have genocide recognized as a crime, even as the Holocaust unfolded before him. When Hitler invaded Poland in 1939,

2:21.3

Lemkin knew that his worst fears were about to come true.

2:25.3

Lemkin fled, leaving his country and his family behind.

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