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On Holocaust Memorial Day, Berlin commemorated the victims of National Socialism.
In Mitte, Bundestag member and parliamentary vice president Petra Pau laid a wreath at the Memorial for Persecuted Homosexuals on Thursday (January 27, 2022). In Marzahn-Hellersdorf, district mayor Gordon Lemm commemorated the former labor camp Marzahn. "Even 77 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, we are still confronted with the dangers of nationalism, anti-Semitism and racial hatred, which we must confront together," Lemm warned. On January 27, 1945, soldiers of the Red Army had liberated the survivors of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. The Nazis had murdered more than a million people there. Since 1996, the date has been observed in Germany as Holocaust Memorial Day.
The district mayor of Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Jörn Oltmann, said that education was crucial so that Auschwitz would never be repeated. "Never again," emphasized the chairwoman of the DGB Berlin-Brandenburg, Katja Karger. The Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia expressed self-criticism. "Coming to terms with the anti-Jewish tradition and the involvement of our church in National Socialism remains our mission," said Bishop Christian Stäblein.