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Israeli Foreign Minister Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day at Camp Where Grandfather Was Killed
(Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid on Thursday addressed the International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. On March 19, 1944, "my grandfather was sent to Auschwitz, and after that, he was sent here, to Mauthausen....He never wronged anyone. He wasn't an important man. He didn't hate anyone. He was simply...Jewish. So they took him in the middle of the night....When he arrived here, the Nazis already knew that they had lost the war...yet they continued to kill Jews up until the very last moment.... My grandfather died in April 1945." "Grandpa Bela...sent me here today to say on his behalf that the Jews have not surrendered. They've established a strong, free, and proud Jewish state, and they sent his grandson to represent them here today. The Nazis thought they were the future, and that Jews would be something you only find in a museum. Instead, the Jewish state is the future and Mauthausen is a museum. Rest in peace, grandfather, you won."