"They are profit-driven catalysts for moving extremism from the margins to the mainstream," Guterres said. Guterres made the comments during a speech to mark International Holocaust Day. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that social media platforms are "complicit" in accelerating various forms of extremism, including anti-Semitism. Later on Friday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke during a Holocaust memorial ceremony in New York City. The UN General Assembly has designated January 27 as International Holocaust Rememberence Day, to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz and remember the 6 million Jews who were murdered, along with other victims of Nazism. UN chief Guterres says social media helps fuel extremism Russian officials have not been invited to the event, amid the invasion of Ukraine. Other guests at the event in Poland include Doug Emhoff, the husband of US Vice President Kamala Harris. Attendees at the event, including US Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, placed candles in remembrance of the victims Image: Bartosz Siedlik/AFP/Getty Images "Auschwitz emerged out of the lust for power and megalomania," he said, referring to the Nazi regime. Piotr Cywinski, the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, said "Auschwitz did not just fall out of the sky." The event's main theme focused on the planning, creation and expansion of the system of dehumanization and genocide at the death camp. The ceremony, which was being streamed online, was held under the honorary patronage of Polish President Andrzej Duda. Jews, Poles, Romani and Soviet prisoners of war were among the victims of the death camp. Some 1.1 million people were murdered at the Auschwitz complex, which began operations in May 1940. She said she survived the camp due to a "stroke of luck" but added that she grapples with survivor's guilt. "For me, Auschwitz is a traumatizing part of my biography," Umlauf said. Survivor recounts trauma of losing familyĮva Umlauf, who was born in 1942, was one of the youngest survivors of the camp. She said during the event Friday that only her mother, sister and herself survived the Nazis, but the rest of her family was murdered.
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