{"id":9010,"date":"2020-01-11T21:42:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T05:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=9010"},"modified":"2020-01-12T08:18:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T16:18:20","slug":"post5-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=9010","title":{"rendered":"“The gates of hell: Auschwitz 75 years on”, The Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Harriet Sherwood, Observer Speical Report, London, Sun 12 Jan 2020<\/p>\n

The Nazi death camp where more than one million people perished was liberated on 27 January 1945. As one survivor, now aged 90, prepares to commemorate the date, she explains why the Holocaust must never be forgotten \u2026 especially in an age of rising antisemitism and nationalism<\/em><\/p>\n

Renee Salt had just turned 15 when she arrived at the gates of hell. Her journey with her parents to Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp near Krak\u00f3w in Poland, was by cattle truck, wedged in with hundreds of other Jews, no food, water or air for 24 hours. On arrival, the men were separated from women and children; Renee, who was born in Poland<\/a>, never saw her father again.<\/p>\n

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She and her mother stood in line. The \u201cAngel of Death\u201d \u2013 Nazi SS officer Josef Mengele, a doctor who conducted cruel experiments on prisoners \u2013 stood at the head of the queue. \u201cWhenever he saw two people holding hands he would split them up with a flick of his hand, one to die and one to live,\u201d she told the Observer<\/em>. Those sent to the right were taken straight to the gas chambers. By a miracle \u2013 \u201cGod\u2019s will, I suppose\u201d \u2013 Renee and her mother both went to the left.<\/p>\n