The horrors of the Holocaust have been well-documented.
Beyond the grim statistics – that an estimated six million Jews met their deaths in concentration camps – the surprise elements are equally as shocking.
The industrial mechanism of the Nazis’ killing is breathtaking and the organisation behind it chilling.
The Nazis went further than just killing Jews – there are stories of hair being used for pillows and the extracting of gold fillings by the kilo for Germany’s treasury.
Seventy years on from the liberation of Auschwitz the grim details are still shocking – and so they should be.
We must never become desensitised to what happened and it should always shock, no matter how many years go by.
We must continue to remember what happened all those years ago and we must tell the next generation.
Only by continuing to tell the story can we ensure it never happens again.
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