{"id":16654,"date":"2015-01-27T14:06:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T13:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16654"},"modified":"2015-01-27T14:08:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T13:08:40","slug":"holocaust-memorial-day-70-years-since-the-liberation-of-auschwitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16654","title":{"rendered":"Holocaust Memorial Day: 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK, today is Holocaust Memorial Day.\u00a0I have visited Holocaust museums in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Washington and Jerusalem and I have been to Terezin in the Czech Republic and Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>One weekend some years ago, I attend a fascinating course on the Holocaust run by an impressive teacher called Ronnie Landau. Some time later, I attended the launch of the new edition of his book \u201cThe Nazi Holocaust: Its History And Meaning\u201d and you can read my review of his work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/history3.html#Holocaust\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday and today, media outlets have shown photographs of Auschwitz in the snow. I have found these images haunting because, when I visited Auschwitz, it was January and bitterly cold, so I was chilled mentally and physically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK, today is Holocaust Memorial Day.\u00a0I have visited Holocaust museums in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Washington and Jerusalem and I have been to Terezin in the Czech Republic and Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland. One weekend some years ago, I attend a fascinating course on the Holocaust run by an impressive teacher called Ronnie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16654"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16658,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16654\/revisions\/16658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}