
FDLP-Ecuador: FROM AUSCHWITZ TO GAZA
We hereby publish an unofficial translation of an article by the Front to Defend the Peoples Struggles – Ecuador:
On January 27, 2025, it is 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, an action that was only possible thanks to the determined intervention of the Soviet Union’s Red Army.
Auschwitz was not just a place, but the most shocking symbol of the unimaginable horror of the Holocaust. Between 1940 and 1945, more than 1.1 million men, women and children were murdered there, most of them Jews. However, political prisoners, Gypsies, Poles, Communists, disabled people and others persecuted by the Nazi regime were also victims. Each number in these shocking figures represents a life, a face, a story cut short in a genocide that was part of a global conflict originating in the internal contradictions of the imperialist powers, taken to the extreme in a devastating war.
The Holocaust has become a central axis in the narrative that has legitimized the construction of the imperialist enclave in Israel. Through Zionism, a war machine has been built that, since its creation in 1948, has not ceased to implement neocolonialist policies, often backed by the evocation of the Jewish Holocaust as a moral justification. In these 80 years, Zionism has managed not only to strengthen Israeli communities around the world linked to reactionary regimes, but also to construct a narrative of perpetual victimhood that, according to some perspectives, has served to divert attention from the crimes committed by the State of Israel, especially in Palestine, with a devastating impact on Gaza. These actions, in many respects, are comparable to the crimes perpetrated by the German Third Reich.
The Nuremberg Trials were an essential act of historical justice, where those responsible for the Nazi genocide were convicted for their crimes against humanity. Today, there is a demand that the Zionist leadership, under the leadership of the current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, be brought before an international court similar to that of Nuremberg, to be held accountable for the crimes committed against the Palestinian people. This people, in their struggle for resistance, has offered nearly 50,000 lives in the name of the dignity and freedom of oppressed peoples around the world.
Commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz does not only mean reflecting on the horrors of the past, but also questioning and combating the crimes of the present promoted by imperialist powers, primarily the United States and its criminal arm in the Middle East, Israel. Honoring the victims of Auschwitz means committing ourselves to supporting the resistance of the Palestinians, Lebanese, Yemenis and all the peoples of the Third World who suffer under the neo-colonialist onslaught promoted by US imperialism and Zionism.
Auschwitz was not just a place, but the most shivery symbol of the unimaginable horror of the Holocaust. On the other hand, Gaza is not just a place. It is the living symbol of the horrors of a criminal war backed by imperialism and Zionism. However, unlike Auschwitz, Gaza also represents an active symbol of the fierce and determined armed resistance of the dignified peoples of the land fighting for their freedom and self-determination.
LONG LIVE FREE PALESTINE!