Argus title : Horror revisits us 60 years on
It is 60 years since the gates were opened on the horrors of Auschwitz and Red Army soldiers first saw the death chambers, ovens and chimneys in which hundreds of thousands of human beings had been gassed, immolated and pitched into the atmosphere as stinking ash.
Their deaths and those of millions more in countless massacres and other death camps are what is now most often collectively referred to as the Holocaust.
Since the nineteenth century the word holocaust has been used to describe terrible massacres of large numbers of people. But it is also an ancient word signifying sacrifice by fire. Continue reading