Anna Ornstein est née en Hongrie, en 1927. En 1944, elle a été déportée à Auschwitz avec ses parents et sa grand-mère de 96 ans. Elle témoigne de son expérience et s’interroge sur ce que nous pouvons en penser alors que l’idéologie d’extrême-droite se répand de nouveau sur le monde. Par Alexandra Senfft >> lire
Minimiser les crimes de sa famille ? La méthode allemande d’auto-exonération a conduit, selon la journaliste Alexandra Senfft, à un aveuglement qui nourrit le retour de l’extrême-droite. Au lendemain du 8 mai 2020, une réflexion sur le déni et ses conséquences politiques Mediapart, France, 12.05.2020 >> read
Maya
Laster-Wallfisch’s mother survived the Holocaust. It affects the family over
generations
First published in Der Freitag, Number 16, April 15, 2020
Maya Lasker-Wallfisch
The Holocaust was not ended with the liberation of the concentration camps. It lives on in all those who were in contact with it,” writes Maya Jacobs, née Lasker-Wallfisch, in her debut. The 62-year-old tells very personally how the persecution and murder of her family affected her. Her mother Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived Auschwitz because she “was allowed” to play the cello in the orchestra there – for the forced laborers and those doomed to die on their way to the gas chambers, day after day. The cellist was also able to save her older sister Renate. The teenagers overcame typhus and in 1944 were transported to Bergen-Belsen, where they were liberated. Anita was 19 then and had been an orphan for three years: The Nazis had murdered her parents.
“Alexandra Senfft from Germany says to “The Clinic”: “Human Rights are universal and should be globally recognized. If we don’t acknowledge the crimes of the past and remain silent or worse, deny what has happened, new injustice will be done. Denial makes us accomplices of crime. It is our duty to stop denial in order to protect people and to safeguard moral and legal standards.” In: De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de negacionismo?, Catalina Llantén The Clinic, Chile, 31.1.2020 >> Lesen