Violent attack on the Holocaust memorial: two injured in Berlin!

Violent attack on the Holocaust memorial: two injured in Berlin!

Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, Berlin, Deutschland - On January 30, 2025, in Berlin-Mitte there was an incident at the monument to the murdered Jews in Europe. A 36-year-old man attacked two people who were slightly injured and damaged several wreaths that had been laid down to the commemoration. The police confirmed the man's arrest, further backgrounds of the incident are currently unknown. The state security has started the investigation. This incident occurred just a few days after the official commemoration of the victims of National Socialism on January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

This ceremony was affected with a sad nostalgia, since on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, on which over 1.1 million people, mainly Jews were murdered by Nazis, gathered a decreasing number of survivors. According to AP news were only 56 surviving, and many fear that this was the last big intellectual event with more important Participation of survivors could be.

commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust

January 27, 2005 was determined by the United Nations as an international Holocaust Memorial Day. This year, high-ranking guests such as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier were present. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was also among those present, while Russian representatives have not been welcome since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The participants warned to consistently combat the increase in hatred and anti -Semitism.

One of the survivors, Tova Friedman, 86, emphasized the concern about the current situation in the United States, where anti -Semitism also increases. Marian Turski, 98, also appealed to society to keep the memory of the Holocaust awake. The numbers confirm the worries about the survivors: According to NZZ , only around 245,000 Holocaust-survivors worldwide, with a significant decline in comparison to earlier years.

The current situation of the survivors

In Germany, over 14,000 of these brave individuals still live, while Jens Mahlo from Claims Conference addressed the stability of German democracy and has denounced the increase in anti -Semitic crimes in recent years. In particular, after the events around the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2022, 2,200 anti -Semitic crimes were registered. A worrying trend that alerts the survivors and society as a whole.

The survivors who live in 91 countries are on average 86 years old, and many of them are so -called “Child Survivors”, who were under the end of the war. These demographic knowledge, which came to light for the first time through a study by the Claims Conference, show the urgency to maintain the memory of the persecuted people and at the same time actively act against the associated current challenges.