On January 27, 1945, an unimaginable horror revealed itself to them. It was soldiers of the Red Army who liberated the SS death camp in Auschwitz almost 78 years ago. was published on Jin the city of Rösrath. The authors of the anthology “Heaven over Philomena/Auschwitz looks at us” (Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2022) faced this question, which was published on the occasion of the Philomena-Franz-Forum e.V. This is where our responsibility comes from. We know what genocide is and know Celan's verse “Death is a master from Germany”. We all have the Holocaust tattooed on our memorial skin. And so we can accept this horror without despairing of being German. And so she ignited a light for all of us in the dark tunnel of Auschwitz. If we love, we become rich.”Ī triad determined their self-image: Sintiza, God, Germany. At home and abroad, in schools and universities, she spread the message of her life: “If we hate, we lose. Philomena Franz, the “Woman of Europe” in 2001, awarded the Federal Cross of Merit and the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia and honorary citizen of the district town of Bergisch Gladbach, read from her impressive book “Between Love and Hatred” for many decades.
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