{"id":48084,"date":"2015-01-26T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dwindling_group_of_survivors_to_mark_auschwitz_70_years_on\/"},"modified":"2015-01-26T16:00:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T16:00:01","slug":"dwindling_group_of_survivors_to_mark_auschwitz_70_years_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48084","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) Dwindling group of survivors to mark Auschwitz 70 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, 1,500 Holocaust survivors traveled to Auschwitz to mark the 60th anniversary of the death camp\u2019s liberation. On Tuesday, for the 70th anniversary, organizers are expecting 300, the youngest in their 70s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 10 years there might be just one,\u201d\u009d said Zygmunt Shipper, an 85-year-old survivor who will attend the event in southern Poland to pay homage to the millions killed by the Third Reich. In recent years, Shipper has been traveling around Britain to share his story with school groups, hoping to reach as many people as he can while he has the strength.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe children cry, and I tell them to talk to their parents and brothers and sisters and ask them \u201d\u02dcwhy do we do it and why do we hate?\u2019\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cWe mustn\u2019t forget what happened.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/dwindling-group-of-survivors-to-mark-auschwitz-70-years-on\/2015\/01\/26\/218ae8d2-a530-11e4-a162-121d06ca77f1_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, 1,500 Holocaust survivors traveled to Auschwitz to mark the 60th anniversary of the death camp\u2019s liberation. On Tuesday, for the 70th anniversary, organizers are expecting 300, the youngest in their 70s. \u201cIn 10 years there might be<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48084\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,200,478,133,429,155,449,151,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-germany","category-history","category-judaism","category-other-faiths","category-poland","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}