World remembers Holocaust as antisemitism rises in pandemic

📆 1/27/2022 4:49 PM
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The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution in November 2005 establishing the annual commemoration, and chose Jan. 27 — the day that Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops in 1945.

Belgian politician, former Prime Minister of Belgium, President of the European Council

In all, about 6 million European Jews and millions of other people were killed by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust. Some 1.5 million were children. “I was 7 years old and the youngest of about 1,100 people, of whom my parents, I and a very few others survived,” she said. Charles Michel, the head of the EU Council bringing together leaders of the 27 EU member countries, insisted on the importance of commemorating the Shoah as the number of survivors diminishes every year.

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