{"id":326,"date":"2025-01-27T07:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T12:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/four.ubfriends.org\/?p=326"},"modified":"2026-10-31T04:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:31:39","slug":"remembrance-at-80-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/four.ubfriends.org\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance at 80 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the potential for new concentration camps ramps up in 2025, the world marks the 80th anniversary of the closing of one of the worst concentration camps in 1945.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Memorials, remembrance, and retelling are important ways of resistance to fascism.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Germany &#8211; where the Nazis rose to power &#8211; there\u2019s what\u2019s known as a Culture of Remembrance. It\u2019s a commitment to confront, and to take responsibility, for the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>But German memory culture &#8211; despite being well established &#8211; isn\u2019t without its critics. There are figures on the far right who have sought to recast the country\u2019s Nazi past or even downplay it.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial at the wall&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cp9x8x400xxo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cp9x8x400xxo\u00a0<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Ceremonies have begun to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.<\/li>\n<li>About 50 survivors have returned to the site to lay wreaths and candles, and some will later give speeches at a service with King Charles and world leaders.<\/li>\n<li>Polish President Andrzej Duda says his country&#8217;s job is to preserve the memory of Auschwitz &#8220;in order to never let it happen again&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the potential for new concentration camps ramps up in 2025, the world marks the 80th anniversary of the closing of one of the worst&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_customify_content_layout":"","_customify_sidebar":"","_customify_page_header_display":"default","_customify_disable_header":"","_customify_disable_header_top":"","_customify_disable_header_main":"","_customify_disable_header_bottom":"","_customify_disable_page_title":"","_customify_disable_content_vertical_padding":"","_customify_disable_footer_top":"","_customify_disable_footer_main":"","_customify_disable_footer_bottom":"","_customify_breadcrumb_display":"","_customify_header_transparent_display":"","_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resistance"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/four.ubfriends.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/poppies-2585930_1280.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/four.ubfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/four.ubfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/four.ubfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/four.ubfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/four.ubfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/four.ubfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/four.ubfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/four.ubfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/four.ubfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/four.ubfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/four.ubfriends.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}