5.6000000 to 6.1000000 3.5000000 to 6,000,000 Jews
civilian Slavs
2.5000000 to 4,000,000 prisoners of war
1-1.5 million dissidents Political
200000-800000 200000-300000
between Roma and Sinti people with disabilities
10000-250000 homosexual
2000 Jehovah's Witnesses
Total: between 13 and 19 million people killed and cremated over four years for a average of 11,000 people killed and cremated each day.
On January 27, 1945 were shot down the gates of Auschwitz. Symbolically, this date has been set up on Memorial Day, in memory of the extermination and persecution of the Jewish people and Italian military and political deportees to Nazi camps.
So reads the text of Article 1 of Law No. 211 of July 20, 2000 in memory of those who suffered deportation, imprisonment and death in concentration camps.
"The Italian Republic recognizes the 27th day of January, date of the gates of Auschwitz, 'Memorial Day', in order to remember the Holocaust (extermination of the Jewish people), the racial laws, the persecution Italian Jewish citizens, the Italians who suffered deportation, imprisonment, death, and those who, even in different fields and camps, have opposed the project of extermination, and at the risk of their lives they have saved more lives and protected the persecuted. "
is important but above all remember to not forget that tragedies like this never happen again. I leave you with a poem by Martin Niemoeller.
"First they came for the Jews
and I said nothing because I was not
jew.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not say anything
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not say anything because I was not
union.
Then they came for me. And
was no one left who could say anything. "
and I said nothing because I was not
jew.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not say anything
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not say anything because I was not
union.
Then they came for me. And
was no one left who could say anything. "
Martin Niemoeller
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