‘We have not learned the lessons': Holocaust survivor warns genocide persists around the world

Societies have failed to learn from the Holocaust and prevent the repetition of such crimes, Auschwitz survivor Ruth Cohen warned today during a commemoration event at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

“I am so disheartened and sadly convinced that we have not learned the lessons that this history — my history — teaches,” Cohen told U.S. and European officials, Holocaust survivors, and national Jewish organizations assembled for the 2020 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration.