International Holocaust Remembrance Day: 'Remembrance Is Not Just About the Past'

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"My grandmother no longer recognized her own mother," says Oogappels actress Samya Ghilane about her Jewish family's wartime past in the new episode of Roots, a NOS Stories series. As a child, her grandmother hid in various locations, separated from the rest of her family. "She eventually ended up in a good place, in Rotterdam." Meanwhile, the rest of the family had been betrayed and transported to Auschwitz. "Only my great-grandmother returned.…

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BERLIN. On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Education and Science Workers' Union (GEW) and the Association of Education and Training (VBE) are calling for the memory of Nazi crimes to be kept alive. This appeal is given added urgency by a growing flood of AI-generated fake images online, against which memorial sites and historians are issuing urgent warnings. [Image caption: AI-generated image of an alleged situation in the Dachau concentration ca…

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There's been an alarming rise in antisemitism, accompanied by a sharp increase in racism, intolerance, and hatred, says EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas. "That's why this year's Holocaust Remembrance Day is particularly urgent," she said in a statement on Tuesday.