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Macron visits holocaust memorial, makes address
Amid worries about rising nationalism, French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron visited the Holocaust Memorial in Paris on Sunday with a sombre message: never again.Excitement at his appearance was mixed with sorrowful remembrance...
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Children saved from Nazi camps unveil monument
The children who were saved by Sir Nicholas Winton from Nazi death camps unveiled a monument in Prague's main station to honour their parents on Saturday. The Briton arranged eight trains to carry 669 children, most of them Jewish, from...
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Romanian Nazi Victims Eligible for German Pay
About 1,000 living survivors of Nazi persecution in Romania are now eligible for compensation from the German government, an organization that negotiates with Germany on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis, said WednesdayThe New...
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Boston Holocaust Memorial Vandalized Again
The New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston has been vandalized for the second time this summer.
Police said a 17-year-old boy smashed a glass panel on the memorial Monday evening. He was detained by two bystanders until...
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Boston holocaust memorial vandalised again
The New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston has been vandalised for the second time this summer.
Police said a 17-year-old boy smashed a glass panel on the memorial Monday evening.
He was detained by two...
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Art project honours Holocaust victims
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Prague's Jewish Museum has launched a new art project to honour the victims of the Holocaust.
Photographs of some of the victims are being projected onto a synagogue to keep their memory alive.
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Art project honours Holocaust victims
LEADIN:
Prague's Jewish Museum has launched a new art project to honour the victims of the Holocaust.
Photographs of some of the victims are being projected onto a synagogue to keep their memory alive.
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Honour for Hungarian who helped Jews escape Nazis
A Hungarian who printed thousands of passports allowing Jews to flee the country during World War II has been honoured with a memorial plaque.
Emil Wiesmeyer's printing company initially made 4,000 of the basic passports,...
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102 year-old reunited with family he thought had died in Holocaust
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A 102-year-old Holocaust survivor has been reunited with a newly discovered nephew in an emotional first meeting.
Eliahu Pietruszka fled Poland during World War II and thought his entire family had...
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102 year-old reunited with family he thought had died in Holocaust
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A 102-year-old Holocaust survivor has been reunited with a newly discovered nephew in an emotional first meeting.
Eliahu Pietruszka fled Poland during World War II and thought his entire family had...
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Memorial for Jewish girl who died in Holocaust
More than two dozen relatives participated in a memorial ceremony for Karolina Cohn, a Jewish girl from Frankfurt who perished in the Holocaust more than 70 years ago.
The story of her life and death had been all but erased...
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Brazil's first Holocaust memorial opens to the public
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Sao Paulo's first museum dedicated to Jewish immigration and the Holocaust will officially open to the public on Sunday (12 Nov).
The museum is housed in the city's historic first synagogue and tells...
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Brazil's first Holocaust memorial opens to the public
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Brazil's first museum dedicated to Jewish immigration and the Holocaust will officially open to the public on Sunday (12 Nov) in Sao Paulo.
The museum is housed in the city's historic first synagogue...
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Ukrainian FM visits Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on Sunday.
Klimkin toured the Hall of Names and laid a wreath inside the Hall of Remembrance.
He also wrote in...
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Pilgrims react to Pope presiding over mass in Kaunas
Pope Francis has paid tribute to Lithuanians who died and suffered during Soviet and Nazi occupations on the day the country remembers the near-extermination of its centuries-old Jewish community during the Holocaust.
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Witness recalls the horrors of Kristallnacht 80 years ago
Germany is marking the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the anti-Jewish pogrom that's widely seen as the start of the Nazi Holocaust.
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Jewish students in Berlin mark 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht
Jewish students in Berlin have marked the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass" when Nazis terrorised Jews throughout Germany.
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US VP joins Polish president in Auschwitz visit
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited the memorial site of Auschwitz on Friday along with the Polish president and Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Donald Trump.
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UK Jews apply for German nationality as Brexit looms
The UK's imminent exit from the EU is making Britons from diverse communities apply for citizenship in European countries - including some whose continental roots are linked to a deeply traumatic history.
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Rome's Jewish community on Pope's Pius XII move
The head of the Jewish community in Rome has welcomed a decision by Pope Francis to open up the Vatican archives on the World War II-era Pope Pius XII, who has been criticised by Jews of staying silent on the Holocaust.