On 27 January, the world commemorates the Holocaust and the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz – the epicenter of the greatest catastrophe ever perpetrated by man against man. As one of the last living survivors of that catastrophe, I have just been appointed Honorary Ambassador and Special Envoy for Holocaust education by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. In that capacity, my duty is not only to honor the dead, but also to alert the living to the mounting dangers that threaten to destroy their world as they once destroyed mine.
