The International Auschwitz Committee has expressed its shock at the strong performance of far-right parties in the European elections. “For survivors of the Holocaust and the German concentration and extermination camps, this election result is a depressing turning point,” said Executive Vice President Christoph Heubner in a statement issued on Monday. “Europe is losing and forgetting itself: in more and more countries, nationalist and far-right parties are gaining influence, which actually despise the European idea that grew out of the horrors of the World War II and the murderous horror of …