WNY vows to remember the Holocaust

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - This is the day western New Yorkers remember the Holocaust.

As Senior Correspondent Rich Newberg reports, this year's commemoration recalls the Nuremberg trials and why the world cannot afford to "forget." We should warn you some of the images in this story are disturbing.

A photograph held by a man joined by hundreds in western New York, who want him to know that survivors, as well as those who did not make it through the Nazi Holocaust have not been forgotten.

Margit Weinmann says the world needs reminders.

Holocaust Survivor Margit Weinmann said, "To remind people of what can happen when human beings, of their cruelty and barbarism, one against another."

This is the 65th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials where the word "genocide" appeared for the first time, and chief Nazi officials were held accountable for crimes against humanity.

Prof. John Barrett of St. John's University said "What the Nuremberg Trials really proved in its time and for history, is the reality of the Holocaust."

It's a reality we still try and comprehend with the help of survivors and with the vow to "Never Forget."