Germany remembers the Holocaust with a speech of a survivor

Berlin, 27 January (EFE). – With a speech of the literary and surviving critic of the ghetto of Warsaw Marcel Reich-Ranicki, before the Germanic Parliament, Germany today remembered the Jewish Holocaust on the occasion of the 67 anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz, the 27 of January of 1945.

In the presence of the president of Germany, Christian Wulff, the federal chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the members of its Cabinet, Reich-Ranicki remembered its youth like Jew locked up in the ghetto of the Polish capital and the massive deportations to the extermination camps.

The old one, of 91 years, needed the aid the own Wulff and the president of the Constitutional Court, Andreas Vosskuhle, to accede and to leave the pulpit of the House of Representatives, the Bundestag later.

Of origin Polish, but recognized of the Germanic literary critics it explained that what the Nazis described as a “transfer of the Jews, it was in fact one deportation, a deportation of Warsaw with a single aim: the death”.

Reich Ranicki related that, like translator in the administration of the ghetto, she had knowledge of the plans for the deportations of the Jews in advance and which the employees and their relatives of the Jewish advice would be excluded from that measurement.

He is for this reason, according to explained, that same day contracted marriage with its Teófila bride, with that was married 69 years until his death in 2011.

The intervention of Reich-Ranicki made an impression to such an extent to the congregated ones in the Bundestag, among them several classes of students German, French and Poles, who to their term took place several minutes of silence, interrupted by contained applause.

Previously and in the opening of the session, the president of the Bundestag, Norbert Lammert, specifically honored those citizens of Germany who plant face to the extreme right and the “neo-Nazism”.

“They are people who give example and show value”, Lammert said, that also remembered to the neo-Nazi cell the past discovered autumn, to which fault of the murder of nine foreign citizens and one police.

The president of the House of Representatives also commented that recent studies reveal that a 20 percent of the German population has latent “anti-semitic” convictions and that those expositions are not acceptable in this country.

The German Parliament every year dedicates from 1996 this date to remember the liberation of Auschwitz and to remember the memory of the victims of the genocide committed by the Nazis, not only against the Jews, but against other ethnic minorities and social like the gypsys or the homosexuals.

Other acts in memory of the victims of the Holocaust took place this morning before memorials erected in different Nazi concentration camps in territory, Germanic like the one of Sachsenhausen and the one from Ravensbrück.