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Douglas Emhoff (L), the Jewish husband of US Vice President Kamala Harris, attended the 78th anniversary ceremony to mark the liberation of the Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau

World

On Holocaust Day, Polish PM accuses Putin of building ‘new camps’

Poland marked the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau at the site of the former camp in Polish city of Oswiecim.

AFPJanuary 27, 2023

Life

The world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day amid rising antisemitism

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz -Birkenau concentration camp in 1945.

Karen GrahamJanuary 27, 2022

World

Remembering the Holocaust and why 1.3 million names are missing

On Monday in Israel, sirens wailed nonstop for two minutes just as they do every year. Time literally stops for everything. Vehicles on the...

Karen GrahamApril 24, 2017

World

White House: No mention of Jews on Holocaust day was intentional

President Donald Trump mentioned neither Jews nor anti-Semitism during his brief January 27 statement, in which he spoke of the “victims, survivors [and] heroes...

Brett WilkinsJanuary 30, 2017