27th January is Holocaust Memorial Day

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Mark Shields Monday, January 27, 2014
10:52 AM

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, when services will be held across Norfolk to remember victims of genocide the world over, on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Last week Eva Schloss, Anne Frank’s step-sister and an Auschwitz survivor, visited Norwich to speak of her experiences – and explain why we must never forget. MARK SHIELDS reports

For more than 40 years after her release from Auschwitz-Birkenau, Eva Schloss did not speak about what she had lived through.

She didn’t say a word – not to her husband, not to her three children - during the decades in which her step-sister, Anne Frank, became the defining voice of Jewish persecution at the hands of the Nazis.

It was in 1986 that she first dared to tell of the atrocities she had survived – and the decision changed her life forever.

“Ask me anything: I’m happy to talk”, she told the audience in the Curve auditorium in the Forum at the end of a 45-minute talk on Monday that brought a standing ovation.

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