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UN exhibit showcases Holocaust-era art
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Israel's ambassador to the United Nations commemorated an exhibition at the UN headquarters on Thursday in remembrance of the Holocaust.
"Our sacred duty is not only to commemorate...
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Baptist minister helps restore Jewish graves destroyed by Nazis
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State Dept. official welcomes Nazi guard's deportation
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Anne Frank House exhibition updated to explain the persecution of Jews in WW2
The canal-side house where Anne Frank hid from German forces during World War II has been renovated to better tell the teenage Jewish diarist's tragic story to a new generation of visitors who may know little about the horrors of the...
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Holocaust survivor meets teens from swastika photo
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Holocaust survivor, soldier have emotional meeting
A Holocaust survivor welcomed to her suburban Detroit home a former soldier whose U.S. Army unit liberated the concentration camp where she was being held.
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Calif. shooting looms over DC Holocaust ceremony
Holocaust survivors lit candles and the chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum pointed to Saturday's shooting at a California synagogue as hundreds gathered to mark the "Days of Remembrance" in the nation's capital.
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Calif. shooting looms over DC Holocaust ceremony
Holocaust survivors lit candles and the chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum pointed to Saturday's shooting at a California synagogue as hundreds gathered to mark the "Days of Remembrance" in the nation's capital.
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Polish PM warns against distortion of Holocaust
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday warned that the Holocaust commemoration on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp must not be "misused" for political puposes.
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Zelenskiy speaks at World Jewish Congress meeting
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy paid tribute Sunday evening to Holocaust survivors, telling them on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the Auschwitz death camp's liberation that they are an example to humanity.
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Former prisoners lay wreaths on anniversary
Seventy years after Soviet soldiers entered Auschwitz, finding piles of corpses and prisoners close to death, holocaust survivors on Tuesday commemorated the liberation of the camp.
A special wreath laying ceremony was held, candles were...
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Abe visits Anne Frank House after vandalism of diaries in Tokyo
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe paid a visit to the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, on Sunday, a diplomatic move ahead of a meeting with the leaders of the US and South Korea to discuss North Korea.
Abe said it was "quite...
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Jewish community is suing Germany over ransom paid to Nazi occupiers
Greece's biggest Jewish community says it has taken Germany to Europe's top human rights court, seeking the return of a huge ransom paid to Nazi occupiers more than 70 years ago to free thousands of slave labourers, who were subsequently...
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Putin marks Holocaust day at Jewish centre
Russian president Vladimir Putin gathered with Moscow Jews, war veterans and a few survivors of the Auschwitz death camp for a ceremony in Moscow on Tuesday, to honour the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Putin had not...
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Jews boycott govt memorial ceremony over Nisman
Troubled by the recent death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, members of the Jewish community in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, boycotted the government's annual ceremony to commemorate victims of the Holocaust on Tuesday, holding...
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Holocaust Remembrance Day marked at Terezin camp
Holocaust survivors and politicians were among those marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday in the grounds of the Terezin concentration camp, in the Czech Republic.
Felix Kolmer, a survivor of both Terezin and...
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Survivors react at Auschwitz anniversary
French Holocaust survivors gathered in the courtyard of the Shoah Memorial in Paris to listen to President Francois Hollande whose speech marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp by Soviet troops.
In the...
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Preparations for anniversary memorial
David Wisnia was only 15 years old when, in December 1942, he was brought to Auschwitz-Birkenau where the Nazis killed more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews.
Wisnia, son of a Warsaw merchant, managed to escape after surviving...