Remembering Auschwitz so it can never happen again
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Remembering Auschwitz so it can never happen again

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NORMAN HERMANT, REPORTER: Through these gates lay the very heart of evil. NORMAN HERMANT: Alex Ryvchin was at the ceremony representing the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. NORMAN HERMANT: This anniversary is vital reminder, says Ryvchin, the Holocaust wasn't the beginning of murderous hate towards Jews and other minorities - it was the culmination. NORMAN HERMANT: Like so many Jewish families in Europe Nina Bassat’s suffered numerous murders in the war. NORMAN HERMANT: Bassat herself barely escaped death when she was marched with her grandmother to a deathcamp train.

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