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Source: https://www.newsweek.com/80-years-later-we-forget-lessons-auschwitz-our-peril-opinion-2020373
80 Years Later, We Forget the Lessons of Auschwitz at Our Peril
(Newsweek) Greg Schneider and Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat - Jan. 27 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than 1 million Jewish men, women, and children were killed by the German Nazis solely because they were Jewish. The Auschwitz killing center was just one part of the Nazis' vast effort to eliminate European Jewry. An advanced, educated nation succeeded - with the help of collaborators across Europe - in killing two of every three European Jews, a genocide so unprecedented in its ambition and scale that it is now called the Holocaust. Greg Schneider is Executive Vice President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Amb. Stuart E. Eizenstat is Chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.