Holocaust Memorial Day: Survivor sounds alarm over ‘echoes of the Holocaust’

Born in Berlin in 1930, Irene Butter endured the horrors of the Holocaust as a Jewish child coming of age in Nazi-occupied Europe. As the world pauses to remember the genocide that killed millions of Jews, Butter tells CNN's Clarissa Ward that we must stay vigilant to preserve democratic institutions amid emerging 'echoes' of the Holocaust.

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42 comments

  1. Thank you for sharing your story ❣️ It hurt us as well when we saw the Auchwitz shirts 😭😭 Still don’t understand the cruelty now or then😢

    1. The general public never saw the worst of it, as the footage of the camps used in allied newsreels was taken after a few days of cleaning up the camp. As the footage taken on the day of liberation was considered too graphic to show…
      My Prussian Jewish Grandfather served in a US Army Feild Hospital which was involved in several Concentration Camp liberations. One of the doctors he trained with lost it and went for a short walk before putting a Colt1911 in his mouth after the second camp liberation. It was that horrible and everyone who was there knew they would never escape those memories except by death…

    1. Fox is the biggest supporter of Israel there is in America. I can’t stand fox but theyre definitely dedicated to the tribe.

    2. @Pedro Sanchez it aint just them pedro ,its cnn,MSNBC and every other news organization in america. Israel and the juice are the only thing that unites Republicans and Democrats. Both sides are equally supportive when it comes to “our greatest ally “

  2. God bless you ma’am the Lord watch over you at that period of your time and your life tell a story and for our generation and more generations to come understand what Humanity means we all are from the same clock no matter what your nationality is we bleed the same too much hate in our world

  3. Straight from the source. Those on the right need to humble themselves and recognize the true signs of fascism that are growing in their party.

    1. I hear jokes that the left doesn’t know how to meme or generate insults effectively. I get it now. It’s like talking to a child. Yeah I’ll go bathe…

    2. @JHK 23 They own the company if they dont like what you say they can take it down. Give me a break Trumptard 😪

    3. @Edgar Venegas I agree but Trump fueled it all 4 years cant deny that. Thats not what a president does sorry.

    4. @warpedjaffas1 You are very narrow minded.
      You can still believe there was fraud in the election and be 100% against violence at the same time

    5. @Indiana Public Land you only 1 week in an you sleepy spastics already want a break lol, and those companies are breaching the equality act btw which is illegal

  4. I’m going to disagree in some people there is no good. When another human being allows another human being to suffer there is no good in that person.

    1. “The office of the people’s president.” -Donald Trump
      “Dominion’s fraudulent president.” -Joe Biden

    2. @halalslagt en dansk panser og gør Allah glad is that why Rudy is being sued for a billion dollars?
      Lol, they can do the same to you.

    3. @halalslagt en dansk panser og gør Allah glad Keep saying that for the next 8 years, no one will listen to you as you are nobody.

    4. @TIME COMPLEXITY Well, you’re clearly listening to him, otherwise you wouldn’t have responded, LOL.

  5. Our Europe😭🇫🇮 We remember. It was not that long ago. (Edit: that war took both my grand fathers. It is not so long ago)

    1. I can’t imagine, both of my parents served during World War II and would not speak of it, until we were much older. Peace and love to you

  6. What a sweetheart. It breaks my heart the devastation and sadness she had to face. What a beautiful woman.

  7. Jan 6th they wanted to cause more damage than one can imagine.
    If We dont hold them accountable with tough justice, we may be going for some thing like above with innocent Americans who were deprived of truth and infected with covid

    1. It is repeating itself. 45 out of 50 of the Republican Senators voted to try to stop the Impeachment of the Seditionist Donald Trump. Over 100 of the House Reps voted to disenfranchise legal voters’ votes because their guy didn’t win. This was After they were themselves victims of the rioters.

  8. Many prayers and love to all of the Holocaust victims. May peace be the sequel. We will never forget 🥀 ❤️

  9. So basically, someone who lived through the horrors of World War 2, compares Trump to Hitler. Again, this isn’t shocking.

  10. Despite the horrors she endured, the fact that she can still find reason for hope for humanity is inspiring. May she continue to tell her story and may we continue to remember and commit to #neveragain.

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