Black page 70 years Release – commemoration Auschwitz

Zwarte bladzijde (Black page) on the Dutch Public Broadcasting channels 1 & 2: Auschwitz Konzentrationslager

People put in concentration camps to eradicate them. – Inhuman conditions which should be remembered at all times and taken care of that that can not happen again. – Auschwitz Konzentrationslager – Het opsluiten van mensen in concentratiekampen om ze uit te roeien. – Onmenselijke omstandigheden die moeten worden herinnerd te allen tijde en waarvoor moet gezorgd worden dat zulke zaken niet opnieuw kunnen gebeuren.

70 years release – commemoration Auschwitz • NPO 1 15.00

Andere Tijden (Other times) • NPO 2 • 21.20

Night will fall • NPO 2 • 23.00

Auschwitz concentration camp (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

On 27 January 1945, today exact 70 years, the concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau was delivered by the Russian army. More than one million people were assassinated during the second world war by the nazi’s.

The Dutch Public Broadcasting Company NPO 1 brings a life-screening from 3pm until 6pm of the commemoration ceremony in the former concentration camp, which is attended by several state leaders from all Europe.

At 9.20pm follows on NPO 2 Andere Tijden surviving dependants of victims during their visit to Auschwitz.

During World War II were in this concentration camp more than a million people killed including over 60,000 Dutch. Seventy years later, still no one enters to experience the site of the former death camp without a punch of history. For some visitors, the place additional is loaded because of parents or family were killed. Increasingly second or third generation victims of the war camp visit it to see for them-self how this place has beaten holes in their family history. Other times, Tuesday Jan 27. 21.20 NPO2. (Repetition Saturday, January 31 10:05 am.)

On BBC2 a little bit of attention is given a 7pm local time (8pm continental time) with a review of the commemoration ceremony and at 9pm local time (10pm continental time) Touched by Auschitz, by Laurence Rees lets six survivors tell their story over Auschwitz.

For 23.00 Night Will Fail is programmed by NPO2, a war documentary never earlier shown which topdirector Alfred Hitchcock in 1945 made together with producer Sidney Bernstein  concerning the German concentration camps, them using pictures filmed by British soldiers during the release of the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen.

It is striking that the ARD, ZDF nor the WDR, the German public broadcasters really give not any attention at all to that black page that is inflicted on humanity by their own people.

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Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: Zwarte bladzijde 70 jaar bevrijding – Herdenking Auschwitz

Plus read: January 27 – 70 years ago Not an end yet to genocide

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