Chapter 61: Speak for All

246     after the official ceremonies International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed on January 27. “Germany’s Parliament Commemorates Holocaust Victims,” Deutsche Welle (DW), January 31, 2024, www.dw.com/en/germanys-parliament-commemorates-holocaust-victims/live-68128857.

246     kidnapped as a twelve-year-old . . . took her to . . . Auschwitz-Birkenau, in . . . “Germany’s Parliament Commemorates Holocaust Victims,” www.dw.com/en/germanys-parliament-commemorates-holocaust-victims/live-68128857; and “Auschwitz,” Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, March 16, 2015, encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/auschwitz.
 
246     in her case, Hungary “Germany’s Parliament Commemorates Holocaust Victims,” www.dw.com/en/germanys-parliament-commemorates-holocaust-victims/live-68128857.

246     “I had no idea then . . .” Eva Szepesi quoted in “Germany’s Parliament Commemorates Holocaust Victims,” www.dw.com/en/germanys-parliament-commemorates-holocaust-victims/live-68128857.

246     liberated . . . from Auschwitz-Birkenau “Germany’s Parliament Commemorates Holocaust Victims,” www.dw.com/en/germanys-parliament-commemorates-holocaust-victims/live-68128857; and “Auschwitz,” encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/auschwitz.

246     “Every day I think of my murdered family . . .”  Szepesi quoted in “Germany’s Parliament Commemorates Holocaust Victims,” www.dw.com/en/germanys-parliament-commemorates-holocaust-victims/live-68128857.

246     “It has become the meaning of my life . . .” Szepesi quoted in “Germany’s Parliament Commemorates Holocaust Victims,” www.dw.com/en/germanys-parliament-commemorates-holocaust-victims/live-68128857.

247     succeeded Angela Merkel in 2021 Geir Moulson, “Scholz Replaces Merkel as German Chancellor, Opening New Era,” Associated Press (AP) News, December 8, 2021, apnews.com/article/climate-elections-europe-angela-merkel-european-union-675ee26e99ce6e7f57d0f61989b05a16.

247     “Eva Szepesi has just told us . . .” Olaf Scholz in German Bundestag Stenographic Report, 150th Session Berlin, Wednesday, January 31, 2024, dserver.bundestag.de/btp/20/20150.pdf, 19122, via Google Translate.

247     “The memorial event made a strong impression . . .” Scholz in German Bundestag Stenographic Report, dserver.bundestag.de/btp/20/20150.pdf, 19122.