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It is 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945. There are now few survivors. Fewer to tell the story. It is a horror that has haunted history and blemished Europe.<\/p>\n27 January 2020 | St Albans, UK [Victor Hulbert]<\/p>\n
It is 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945. There are now few survivors. Fewer to tell the story. It is a horror that has haunted history and blemished Europe.<\/p>\n
Adventists had a small part in that story\u2014some hiding and protecting Jews, some ending up in the death camps themselves.<\/p>\n
LATVIA<\/strong><\/p>\n Visit Adventist Church headquarters in Riga, Latvia, and you will find a small engraved plaque in the pavement outside the building. Scattered across the city, the similar plaques are memorials to the brave citizens who hid or helped Jews during the Nazi occupation.<\/p>\n Not far up the road is another plaque, outside a simple timber-frame building where two Adventist sisters lived in an upstairs apartment. They took in a 17-year-old Jewish boy, sheltering him at great risk to their own lives. Their kindness let to his acceptance of Christianity. Ysack Kleimanis<\/a> eventually became a minister and one of Latvia\u2019s most effective soul winners.<\/p>\n