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Holocaust survivor decries 'abuse' of yellow star at COVID protests

Centenarian Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlaender urged the young generation on Thursday to always remember the Nazi genocide and denounced the use by some anti-COVID vaccination protesters of the yellow star Jews were forced to wear.

Reuters

TikTok reveals new features to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

Aims to improve knowledge surrounding the Holocaust and tackle antisemitism

Wales Online

Memory of Scottish teacher Jane Haining who died in Auschwitz to be honoured

Miss Haining refused to leave the school in Hungary where she worked at the outbreak of the Second World War and was later arrested by the Gestapo.

The Independent UK

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In El Paso, a Holocaust Museum and a ‘Rebirth’ of Faith

January 27 is Holocaust Remembrance Day. El Paso and a handful of other Texas cities are home to museums that educate on racism and connect the community.

Texas Observer

What is Holocaust Memorial Day, what is theme for 2022 – and why do we mark it?

National Holocaust Day, or Holocaust Memorial Day, remembers the victims of the Holocaust during the Second World War. Here's what you need to know about the memorial day and how it's marked

Daily Mirror

Maus author hits out at ‘Orwellian’ school district banning his acclaimed Holocaust graphic novel

The McMinn County School board in Tennessee voted 10-0 to ban the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel

The Independent UK

I have wept over horrors of Holocaust, says former Scottish Tory leader

Jackson Carlaw was speaking in a Holyrood debate to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

The Independent UK

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TikTok adds new features to educate users on the Holocaust and antisemitism

The video-sharing app is adding new banners to search results directing users to more information on the subject.

The Independent UK

How three-quarters of French Jews survived the Holocaust, despite the Vichy regime

The fate of France’s Jews during World War II has become an unlikely topic of debate in the run-up to the French presidential election, exhumed by a revisionist candidate’s widely debunked claims that the Nazi-allied Vichy regime offered them protection. FRANCE 24 spoke to historian Jacques Sémelin, whose latest book…

France 24

GMB studio emotional as Holocaust survivor shares decision not to have Auschwitz tattoo removed

Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert has become a TikTok star and appeared on ITV's Good Morning Britain alongside her 18-year-old great-grandson to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

Daily Mirror

What are the purple badges that MPs are wearing?

Here's how to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the significance of the purple and pink flame badges

Manchester Evening News

Holocaust Memorial Day: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ‘may fuel dangerous Holocaust fallacies,’ says new study

Novel by John Boyne is widely used in schools despite historical inaccuracies

The Independent UK

Israel sees Holocaust tropes in COVID protests fuelling anti-Semitism

Protesters against COVID-19 measures who liken themselves to Jews under Nazi persecution are stoking global anti-Semitism, the Israeli government said in a report marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Reuters

EU honors camp survivor as world remembers Holocaust

European Union lawmakers will observe a minute’s silence Thursday and welcome a centenarian Holocaust survivor as the world commemorates the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp and remembers Nazi atrocities

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'My mother fled the Holocaust aged 12 clutching a tin that we still have today'

On Holocaust Memorial Day Ruth Joseph remembers her family's story. The grandparents and aunts she never met were among the more than six million Jews murdered by the Nazis

The Guardian - UK

On Holocaust Memorial Day let’s commit to ridding football of antisemitism

Hate in the stadium does not stay in the stadium and we all have a responsibility to remember and act

The Independent UK

Tennessee school board’s ‘demented’ move to ban Holocaust novel Maus met with bafflement and anger

Pulitzer prize-winning author Art Spiegelman calls the decision ‘Orwellian’

Radio France Internationale

France pays homage to Holocaust victims at Auschwitz memorial

French Prime Minister Jean Castex heads a special delegation to the Auschwitz Holocaust memorial in Poland on Thursday to mark the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp. The visit comes a week after the UN adopted a non-binding resolution to fight against Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism,…

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Seven holocaust survivors feature in paintings commissioned by Prince Charles

The Prince of Wales has hailed seven portraits of some of the nation’s last remaining Holocaust survivors as a “powerful testament” to their lived experience.

The Guardian - UK

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ‘may fuel dangerous Holocaust fallacies’

John Boyne’s story is used by more than a third of teachers in England in lessons on the Nazi genocide, a study found

The Independent UK

As world marks Holocaust, some survivors in Israel struggle

Several dozen impoverished elderly Israelis, among them Holocaust survivors, received food donations from a charity ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day

The Guardian - AU

Tennessee school board bans Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust novel, Maus

Author Art Spiegelman says decision by McMinn county, which cited inappropriate ‘curse words’ and nudity, is ‘demented’

AAP

Many Australians uninformed on Holocaust

Despite Australia having one of the largest per capita number of Holocaust survivors in the world, 25 per cent of us don't know much about the Jewish genocide.

The Conversation

New research shows few Australians know about our own connections to the Holocaust

In December 1938, Yorta Yorta man William Cooper took part in a protest organised by the Australian Aborigines’ League to deliver a letter to the German consulate in Melbourne condemning the “cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government”.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ginger Lane, a Chicago Holocaust survivor urges, ‘Never be a bystander’

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is Thursday. To escape the Nazis, Lane and her siblings were hidden in a fruit orchard near Berlin by non-Jews willing to risk their lives for them.

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