UN Vienna 154d ago

Eighty-one years after the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on 27 January 1945, there are only a few people left who can talk about what happened during the Holocaust. Dirk Peter Adler is one of them. Born in the Netherlands in 1940, he survived the Holocaust after being taken in by a Dutch family when he was two years old. His parents, who tried to flee with him to Belgium were deported to Auschwitz where they were killed. After the war, his mother’s family found the five-year-old with the help of the Red Cross. Dirk Peter was brought to London and later went with another aunt and uncle to live in Colombia. In this short documentary, he gives a moving account of the impact that the Second World War and the Holocaust had on his life. The interview with Dirk Adler was recorded on 27 January 2025.