2024-01-18 17:28:39
Around a hundred upper secondary school students visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp on Thursday in the company of Simon Gronowski, who survived deportation by jumping from the train that was taking him to the camp. the death.
WATCH: Reactions of young people during the memorial trip to Auschwitz
This memorial trip, which is a joint initiative of the War Heritage Institute (WHI) and Defense, fulfills a dual objective, namely “on the one hand, to show respect to the victims and on the other hand to warn once morest extremism which is reappearing in our countries,” explains the WHI.
The students who took part in this memorial trip are between 16 and 18 years old and come from 12 schools spread across the entire territory of Belgium. Twelve students from the Royal Military Academy also boarded the flight which took the students from Melsbroek to Poland.
Simon Gronowski, who accompanied the students on Thursday, survived the deportation by escaping on April 19, 1943 from the 20th Convoy which took him to Auschwitz. Even though he is now 92 years old, the survivor still returns to the place where his mother and sister were murdered “because it is my duty to bear witness to the crimes and barbarity of the Nazis and thus to defend today “today our democracy,” explains Simon Gronowski. “We must arm young people once morest the dangers of fascism and the far right.”
Auschwitz-Birkenau where 1.1 million people, mainly Jews, were murdered is the largest extermination camp set up by the Nazis as part of the Final Solution.
WATCH: Student’s reaction to Auschwitz memorial trip
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