For the 77th anniversary of the camp’s liberation, the Prime Minister insisted on the need to transmit the memory of the Holocaust. And warned against the faces of hatred that often change “envelope”, while “the bottom remains the same”.
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Elie Buzyn, B7572, owes his survival at a punch; The one that the SS officer has launched him in his chest without being able to waver. In this month of August 1944, the Nazi had proof that the young freeluit of 15 years barely but who claimed 17 was fit at work. The life of the 14811 number, Leon Lewkowicz, she, played on a shot. Whoever another inmate of Auschwitz gave him by enjoining him, upon his arrival in the camp of death, to join his father’s queue for the selection and not that of his promised mother to be gasped. Elie Buzyn’s mother died upon arrival in Auschwitz, like Leon Lewkowicz. But it is to them that the two survivors of Nazi barbarism, today aged 93 and 92, think when they tell their tragedy. “She made me promise to survive to tell,” explains Elie Buzyn.
On January 27, Prime Minister, Jean Castex, come to commemorate the 77 e Anniversary of the Liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, seemed to accompany the two survivors rather than the opposite. It is to them that the tenant of Matignon intended to give the floor to become, in turn, “witness witness” and to ensure that the story does not fade. Come in the context of an official protocol, the head of the government concedes him, the visit of the camp also replied to a personal will.
Despite decades of peace, anti-Semitism remains a scourge in France as elsewhere in Europe. According to an IFOP study for the American JEWISH COMMITTEE (AJC) and the Foundation for Political Innovation, published the day before by the Parisian, 68% of the French Jews declare to have suffered mockery and vexations, 20% have been victims of aggression physical. But no matter, basically, the statistics, sweeps the Prime Minister, “if there was only one anti-Semitic act, it would always be too much,” he says.
To demonstrate that nothing must be forgotten, Jean Castex had also invited a handful of high school students. “Where everything starts,” he says, reminding that the shoah is taught in CM2 and Terminale classes, at the moment when young people are also learning philosophy.
“A duty memory, vigilance and commitment “
A seventy-thirteen days of the first round of the presidential election, scheduled on April 10, the hubbub of the campaign could seem far away. Yet the words of the nationalist candidate, Eric Zemmour affirming that the Petain Marshal saved the Jews and doubting the innocence of Captain Dreyfus, haulted the spirits. “The beast still sleeps, it does not have to wake up”, sighs Leon Lewkowicz.
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