Lecture on thinking about the Holocaust in Tokyo 75 years after the release of Auschwitz

Lecture on thinking about the Holocaust in Tokyo 75 years after the release of Auschwitz January 26 22:03

Around 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, where many Jews were slaughtered in World War II, a lecture was held in Tokyo on the Holocaust of Nazi Germany's genocide.

The lecture was held by the Holocaust Educational Resources Center, an NPO in Tokyo that tells the history of the Holocaust. At the venue in Minato-ku, Tokyo, about 180 students and other students gathered.

In the Auschwitz concentration camp Nazi Germany built in southern Poland during World War II, approximately 1.1 million Jews and other people were slaughtered and released on January 27, 1945.

At a lecture held on the 26th, 75 years before liberation, Professor Yuji Ishida of the University of Tokyo, specializing in modern German history, said, `` Exhaustionism has risen in various parts of the world, including Japan, and emotions are more important than reason. It seems to me that thinking about the history of the Holocaust is very important, as it seems that is going to move the times. "

Explaining that the Nazi administration spread anti-Semitism against the background of eugenics, which resulted in genocide, he told young participants, `` I can judge myself in history where the truth is. I want you to be. "

The first-year high school girl who participated said, "I felt that I had to think deeply, not thinking that it was not related to me, in a country different from Japan."