In the 80th Birthday of the release of prisoners From Auschwitz’s extermination camp, Clara Levin Ant, daughter of Polish Jewish surviving from World War II, understands that Nazism continues to exist with some strength and cites the growth of neo -Nazi nuclei around the world and even in Brazil. Clara warns that Nazism, neo -Nazi, the use of Nazi symbols and gestures and anti -Semitism are crimes in Brazil and should be punished. “The biggest drama we are living is that it was naturalized.”
“Anti -Semitism, like racism, is a crime in Brazil. It must be made clear that to be on the agenda of the daily lives of people again the fear that when you make a gesture, it participates in a demonstration or defends a Nazi idea or anti -Semitism, know that it will be punished by law . You can’t ignore it, you can’t pretend that the law doesn’t exist, ”says the Boliviana based in Brazil
On Monday (27), when events in various parts of the world resemble the 80th anniversary of the release of the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland, under the dominance of the Soviet troops, during World War II, vehicles of Brazil Communication Company (EBC) – Brazil agency, National radio and TV Brazil – They talked to Clara Ant, who is currently special advisor to the Presidency of the Brazilian Republic.
Neo -Nazi
Clara perceives the neo -Nazi manifestations as attempts to erase actions against Nazism in humanity. “We are in a moment, in a world that starts from politics, humanity, of those who lead is destructive, predatory of culture, thought, humanity in its fullest meaning.”
About gesture made twice By the South African billionaire Elon Musk, to hit the chest tightly with his right hand and emphatically extend his arm after the inauguration ceremony of US President Donald Trump, on the 20th, Clara Ant understands that it was a greeting Nazi unequivocal.
“The key to this is misinformation cultivated by the far right and its leaders who work to misinform and to prevent people from having discernment. On the one hand, they talk to those who will like the gesture and, on the other hand, pretend a ‘not with me’, so that no one has to do with the greatest tragedy of humanity, Nazism. ”
It emphasizes that there must be an effort against misinformation about the Holocaust. Clara points out the rescue of the true history of the African people in Brazil thanks to education and national laws such as the 2010 Racial Equality Statute, and the Racial Quotas Law. “The misinformation that existed about slavery today has a barrier in knowledge. I think the same thing has to be amplified with regard to neo -Nazism and anti -Semitism. Both are crimes in Brazilian law. ”
Clara explains that neo -Nazi attitudes cannot be covered. “We can’t let cloth on the messages like that period [a Segunda Guerra Mundial]. Every day, we have to be alert to democracy, because its preservation is the best way to prevent racism, Nazism, anti -Semitism will take revenge in some country. ”
The activist also argues that awareness work is done to combat religious intolerance that pursues Jews in Brazil.
Memories
Brasília (DF) 27/01/2025 – Clara Ant’s family fled with other Holocaust survivors to Bolivia, then came to Brazil Clara Ant/Personal Archive
Clara’s parents met refugees in Kazakhstan and married in 1944. In 1945, they had their first daughter in East Germany. The three fled with other survivors of the Holocaust to Bolivia, where in 1948 Clara Ant was born. And at 10 years old came to live in Brazil. The third daughter was born in the country. The three are part of the first generation of the postwar.
And on this day of preserving the memories of the victims of the Holocaust, Clara Ant recalled reports of relatives about the horrors of World War II in Poland. Only his father lost about 41 family members in the same city in Poland. At 14, her mother says she saw citizens shot and buried in an ordinary ditch.
Stories of deaths and disappearances in the paternal and maternal families that classify it itself as a period of shadows.
In opposition, Clara shares the examples of solidarity that saved many Jews during the world conflict and after the Holocaust. She also claims to be a witness to the luminous phase of the creation of anti -affection in people. “Cinema, theater, literature, debates condemned this period of Nazism. Then a universal culture was created against fascism. Everything was to prevent the return of Nazism. ”
In her career in Brazil, the architect is one of the founders of the Workers Party (PT) and the Single Workers’ Central (CUT). In political life, the human rights activist and democracy was a constituent state deputy in São Paulo and a advisor since the first term of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, when he acted in the structuring and implementation of the Zero Hunger Program.
She remembers the meeting in 2004 at President Lula’s Planalto Palace with foreign and Brazilian Jewish community leaders to ask for support for adopting January 27 as an international date in memory of Holocaust victims. According to Clara, on the same day, Lula subscribed to the petition directed to the UN. From 2006, the first events were registered in celebration of the date in Brazil.
Clara says that in 2010, President Lula chose the first synagogue of the Americas, Kahal Zur Israel, in Recife, founded in the 17th century, to honor the murdered people in the Holocaust.
In 2008, there was the meeting of the Brazilian president with the then president of Israel, Shimon Peres, at the Brazilian Embassy in Beijing, China.
Brasília (DF) 27/01/2025- File photo where you see a meeting with President Lula – today is International Day in Memory of Holocaust victims is celebrated on January 27 Photo: Ricardo Stuckert/PR – Ricardo Stuckert/PR
80 years of Auschwitz’s Liberation
At the time of the release of Auschwitz’s extermination field from the Nazi rule by the Red Army during World War II, about 7,000 prisoners were released in January 1945.
Auschwitz is considered the largest extermination camps in history and his fall is understood as a milestone in the defeat of Nazism. It is estimated that between 1.1 million and 1.3 million people were murdered there, mostly Jews.
January 27 was instituted by the United Nations (UN) in 2005 as International Day in Memory of Holocaust victims, the genocide committed by the German Nazis and which systematically killed, between 1939 and 1945, 6 million Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, communists, blacks, people with disabilities, among other groups considered racially inferior by Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler.
Annually, the date brings together survivors, authorities and civil society representatives to keep the victims’ memory alive; Remember the attempt to exterminate, above all, of the Jewish people; other crimes committed in the period; In addition to preventing these twentieth -century events from recurring.
In Brazil, the Israeli Confederation of Brazil (CONIB) posted in its social network about the importance of keeping alive the memory of this chapter in the history of humanity. “Remembering is not just an act of resistance, it’s a commitment to life.” And he added that anti -Semitism (prejudice and discrimination against Jews) is racism.
In the Holocaust, most of the murders occurred in concentration camps, designed for slave labor and mass extermination, through shooting and gas chambers. Mostly in eastern Europe, the Nazis have established about 15,000 fields and concentration subfles in countries occupied by Nazi Germany.
