Holocaust survivor who lived through Auschwitz talks of horrors of past

“I was born here in Krakow, on the other side of the river was where there was a ghetto,” Bernhard Offen said, waving his hand toward the long-gone enclave. “I was born in that area, and I lived through the ghetto. And then, several concentration camps…. In Auschwitz, my father went in one direction. I went in the other direction. I survived.” Speaking the day of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, some 70 kilometres from Krakow, 94-year-old Offen said he keeps on telling his story because of the people who don’t want to believe such a thing happened, and because of his fears of the way he sees humans treating each other today. “We need to wake up... from how we treat human beings. And it is all because... the Holocaust happened because of hatred of others, let’s be clear about that, particularly Jews. Okay, so we’re number one on the on the hit list, but you know, there are other people on the hit list also, Muslims and Indians and others and others. So it is anti human