80th Holocaust Remembrance

On January 27th, 2025, 56 Auschwitz Survivors met in front of the Death Gate at the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. 

One of them was Ruth Grunberger Mermelstein who lost eight members of her immediate family at Auschwitz and was the basis of the Amsterdam Publisher’s 2023 memoir, From Auschwitz with Love, about her and her sister, Manci Grunberger Beran’s lives.  

They were accompanied by leaders and representatives of over 50 countries who listened to their words—crowned heads, presidents, prime ministers, and diplomats as well as the representatives of numerous international institutions, social organizations, clergy, the staff of museums and memorials devoted to this subject as well as by intermediary of the media—all those who wished to honor the memory of the victims of German Nazis. The ceremony was hosted by Marek Zając, secretary of the International Auschwitz Council and chairman of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation Board.