Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher recounts the abuse she and her family endured during the Nazis' genocidal campaign during an address to the German parliament
Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher has urged the German parliament to fight the spreading"cancer" of hatred, recalling the suffering she endured at the hands of the Nazis.
Fighting back tears as she recalled the suffering and loss she endured at the hands of the Nazis, Auerbacher told the Bundestag on Thursday that it was essential to fight the spreading "cancer" of hatred. "This sickness must be healed as soon as possible," she said to applause from MPs, Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his cabinet.Auerbacher said she had been the last Jewish child born in her hometown of Kippenheim in 1934 before the Nazis' genocidal campaign.
The speaker of the Israeli Knesset, Mickey Levy, who was also in attendance embraced Auerbacher and wept openly as he recited a prayer for the dead.
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