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Holocaust victims and survivors remembered at poignant memorial event

Holocaust Memorial Day is held annually to remember the millions of people killed in the Holocaust and subsequent genocides

Daily Record · Jan 31, 2023

Emhoff calls for fighting anti-Jewish tropes on Auschwitz visit

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff’s emotional visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau marked something of a triumph for Jewish Americans: one of their own representing the U.S. at the epicenter of the Nazi genocide that tried — but failed — to wipe out their people.

Tribune News Service · Jan 28, 2023

Holocaust survivor warns of ‘plague’ of antisemitism in UK

Dr Martin Stern attended the memorial at Piccadilly Circus to remember victims of the Holocaust and other genocides.

The Independent UK · Jan 27, 2023

The Holocaust: remembering the powerful acts of 'ordinary people'

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” the British author LP Hartley once wrote, hinting at the mystique of history – the idea that people in the past were somehow different to us in the 21st century.

The Conversation · Jan 26, 2023

Australia Day: Top leaders distance themselves from national holiday marking start of British colonisation

Large sections of Indigenous communities view 26 January as the day when genocide against them began

The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2023

Commentary: Prosecuting genocide is not ‘optional’ for any nation

Recently, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy contended that atrocities committed by Russian troops against unarmed Ukrainian citizens constituted war crimes.

Chicago Tribune · Jan 25, 2023

British-Rwandan choreographer Dorothée Munyaneza explores collective memory in 'Mailles'

With her visceral mix of poetry, song and movement, performance artist and choreographer Dorothée Munyaneza finds powerful expression for often unspeakable horrors. Born in Kigali, she was just 12 in 1994 during the genocide of the Tutsi - a story she tells in one of her first shows "Samedi, Détente"…

France 24 · Jan 24, 2023

Myanmar activists, victims file criminal complaint in Germany over alleged atrocities

Myanmar activists and 16 alleged victims of abuse have filed a criminal complaint in Germany, accusing top generals of instigating genocide against Rohingya Muslims and other atrocities since a military coup two years ago.

Reuters · Jan 24, 2023

Myanmar military accused of war crimes, genocide in German suit

Sixteen survivors ask German prosecutors to investigate crackdowns on Rohingya as well as opponents of military coup.

Al Jazeera · Jan 24, 2023

Myanmar junta target of German criminal complaint

A group of people from Myanmar have filed a criminal complaint in Germany accusing their country’s military of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, a rights organisation said on Tuesday.

Bangkok Post · Jan 24, 2023