Even 80 years on, there's no birdsong in Auschwitz. When she visited as a schoolgirl, SABRINA MILLER came away feeling its legacy was that such horrors would never happen again. But returning now, aft
Daily MailThere may be no machine-gun toting SS guards in the Auschwitz watchtowers these days, but these red-brick constructions have lost none of their power to chill the blood. I visited Auschwitz, 40 miles from Krakow in southern Poland, as part of a two-day conference organised by the European Jewish Association to coincide with last weekend’s Holocaust Memorial Day. Sabrina stands in front of the gates at Auschwitz when she visited as part of a conference coinciding with Holocaust Memorial Day ‘Standing here, we are reminded of the darkest times of the Jewish people and Europe,’ said former Israeli president Reuven Rivlin during a profoundly moving memorial service inside the camp. Jewish children stand behind a barbed wire fence at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust The Nazis left behind thousands of pairs of children’s shoes, 3,800 suitcases and 12,000 pots and pans, all stolen from dead Jews Gidon Lev has accumulated 500,000 followers on TikTok by sharing educational videos about the Shoah, the Hebrew word for the Holocaust, meaning ‘catastrophe’. Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X joined the trip to Auschwitz and made a presentation at the European Jewish Association’s conference Mr Musk said anti-Semitism on X 'is never going to be zero.