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Coach Ira Vigdorchik (center) surrounded by Israel's rythmic gymnastics team. Credit: Courtesy.

Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli gymnastics coach reflects on Kyiv win

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As the international day commemorating the memory of the victims of the Holocaust approaches on Jan. 27, Ira Vigdorchik, the head coach of the Israeli rhythmic gymnastics team, will be honored at the first-ever...
Gilad Erdan on May 18, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Erdan warns UN of Iran threats

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Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan addressed the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, warning member states that it was time for “an institution charged with safeguarding peace and security to begin addressing...
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Dec. 21, 2017 in The Hague. Credit: International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia/Wikimedia Commons.

UN Secretary-General: World alliance needed to combat anti-Semitism

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On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said that “coordinated global action” was needed to combat the increase of neo-Nazism and white supremacy the world has seen since the...
Lena Küchler (center), director of the children's home in Zakopane, Poland, with the children and staff in 1945. Credit: Yad Vashem.

‘Restoring My Lost Childhood’: Exhibit spotlights how children’s homes revived the youngest Holocaust survivors

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It’s been 75 years, but Yaakov Guterman can still recall nearly everything about the nine months he lived in Zakopane, Poland. He remembers that all of a sudden in this group home for children who’d...
World War II veterans from Suriname salute a Holocaust memorial erected in Paramaribo.

A new Holocaust memorial in Suriname

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, marked 75 years since the Russian Army liberated the notorious Auschwitz Death Camp in Poland. There were only about 20,000 people left alive in Auschwitz to be liberated....
Holocaust survivor Ben Stern speaks to a group of Silicon Valley executives at the home of Israel Collaboration Network founder and CEO Yasmin Lukatz on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. Photo by Tomer Lukatz.

WhatsApp founder, YouTube CEO to host Holocaust remembrance events

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Silicon Valley executives will host Holocaust remembrance events throughout next week in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorated annually on Jan. 27. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, WhatsApp founder Jan Koum and Houzz founder Adi...
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte speaks at the 2013 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 24, 2013. Photo: Monika Flueckiger/World Economic Forum via Wikimedia Commons.

Prime minister of Holland apologizes for nation’s role in wartime persecution of Jews

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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Sunday became the first Dutch leader to officially apologize for his country’s role in the Holocaust. Speaking at an event in Amsterdam to mark the 75th anniversary of the...
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin (center) hosts more than 40 world leaders as part of the Fifth World Holocaust Forum on Jan. 22, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Rivlin addresses more than 40 world leaders ahead of World Holocaust Forum

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Ahead of the Fifth World Holocaust Forum and the 75th commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin addressed more than 40 world leaders at an official dinner at...
Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge visited Ottawa on Parliament Hill during Canada Day festivities, July 1, 2011. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

British royal family members attend multiple Holocaust-remembrance ceremonies

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend a commemorative ceremony on Monday held in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the city of Westminster, the U.K.’s Jewish Chronicle reported. Prince William will give a reading,...
Women in the barracks of the newly liberated Auschwitz concentration camp. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.

Amid surging anti-Semitism, 75th commemoration of Auschwitz liberation comes at crucial time

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“To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” ― Elie Wiesel, “Night” Seventy-five: It’s the average lifespan of an American male...