> 'Men always make same mistakes': 80 years since end of Nazi camps, Petr Polacek speaks out / 36TP2KQ
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'Men always make same mistakes': 80 years since end of Nazi camps, Petr Polacek speaks out / 36TP2KQ
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To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, AFP met with survivors around the world.
Holocaust survivor Petr Polacek, 88, was born on July 6, 1936 in Praga, Czech Republic. Pedro and his parents where deported to Terezin - Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) camp on November 19, 1942, and separated fom his parents to live in the Kinderheim (Children's house) though later he was allowed to live with his mother. They worked in agriculture, and he was nine years old when the Soviet forces freed the camp on May 9, 1945.
As the 80th anniversary approaches, Polacek says that "men do not learn. They always make the same mistakes."
Polacek, who arrived in Buenos Aires with his mother in 1949, has 2 sons, 1 daughter, and 4 grandchildren. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES