The ultimate example of man’s inhumanity to man was put to an end 72 years ago today, when Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp, was liberated. It imprisoned people who were torn from their families and lives simply because they were Jewish. It was a place of unspeakable conditions, torture, and death. It used human beings for ghastly experiments because, after all, these weren’t people in the Nazi mind but sub-humans, so it didn’t matter if they suffered. Some 200,000 people were able to leave the camp, but not without physical, emotional, and spiritual damage that has lasted even to today for the roughly 100,000 still alive.
Auschwitz is still fresh in our minds after 79 years on this anniversary day and, to many, every day. As it should be–so that we never allow that to happen to any group of people ever again.
