Exactly 80 years ago, Auschwitz was liberated: “It was a hell that you no longer get from a person”

Survivors, heads of state and heads of government commemorate the liberation of concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on Monday, exactly eighty years ago. 1.1 million people were killed there, including nearly 60,000 Dutch people. The message that the greatest crime against humanity should never repeat itself sounds more urgent than ever.

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