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

Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlander react after being applauded by members of the parliament during a special plenary session to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium January 27, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman

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.

"Today, I see the memory of what happened being abused for political reasons, sometimes even derided and trampled all over," she told EU lawmakers in Brussels at a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

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