'I hope I'm wrong': Auschwitz survivor fears the 'world hasn't learnt from WWII'
'I hope I'm wrong': Auschwitz survivor fears the 'world hasn't learnt from WWII'
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Auschwitz survivors have told Sky News of their pessimism that lessons have not been learnt from history, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp. "I hope I'm wrong," says survivor Ivor Perl. "But there's […] a saying that if one doesn't learn from history, you're cursed to live through it again.".
Ivor is nearly 93 years old and it took half a century for him to feel able to talk publicly about his time at the Nazi concentration camp. "When I was younger I thought to myself, 'I arrived in this world in a terrible time, 1932, at least when I leave it the world will be in a better place'," he says. "But I'm doubting it very, very much.
"It's not my job to cure the problem - my job is to tell you what the problem can be. "I haven't got any sign to see that the world has learnt [any lessons from] the Second World War.". More than a million people, mostly Jewish, were murdered at Auschwitz - just one of the numerous death camps the Nazis built across mainland Europe. On Monday, world leaders will gather at Auschwitz-Birkenau to mark 80 years since its liberation.
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