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Commemorations honor survivors and victims of the Holocaust, with a 400% rise in hateful content across Europe, underscoring the need for education and vigilance, U.N. reports.
- Soviet Army forces opened the gates of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, liberating the camp in occupied Poland and finding 7,500 prisoners and 600 bodies; January 27 is now International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- Auschwitz-Birkenau was the Nazis' largest centre of systematic slaughter, where over 1.1 million people were murdered and nearly 60,000 inmates were forced on death marches.
- Data show fewer than 200,000 Holocaust survivors remain worldwide, half living in Israel, median age 87, and only 50 Auschwitz survivors attended last year's ceremony.
- Commemorations on the anniversary were held across Europe and at the United Nations on Tuesday, while Poland's President Karol Nawrocki joined survivors at Birkenau and former prisoners laid flowers at the Execution Wall.
- Claims Conference data show $530 million in compensation and $960 million for welfare were distributed in 2025, while the Auschwitz site remains a central symbol of Nazi genocide.
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'We live in a world of genocide: 120 million forcibly displaced, triple the number after WWII'
Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Dr. Raz Segal, Program Director and Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Dr. Segal offers a critical reflection on how we remember the Holocaust today and what our memory says about our ability to recognise and respond to mass violence and genocide in today's modern world. He challenges conventional thinking about “lessons” from t…
There are fewer than 200,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors left in the world. Mina Weil remembers Nazism and her flight from Europe on this 81st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by Soviet troops. Weil experienced Benito Mussolini's racial laws in Italy, escaped with his family to Ibero-America and ended up in Israel. Mina Weil was born Mina Rozenbaum on February 12, 1926, in the Italian city of Monfalcone. There we…
Personal stories, mementos help these young students learn about the Holocaust
Not every kid gets a chance to query an author or peek at personal mementoes of someone they've read about, but some Grade 6 and 7 students in Toronto had the opportunity on Tuesday at an event marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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