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Liverpool comes together to remember the horrors of the Holocaust

Special services were held in St John's Gardens and at Liverpool Town Hall to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day

Liverpool Echo

Ukraine seeks more weapons after securing tanks from allies

Russia has stepped up attempts to break through Ukraine's defences with heavy fighting in the east of the country, underlining Kyiv's need of more Western weapons, Ukrainian officials said on Friday. Read FRANCE 24's liveblog below to see how the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).

France 24

Second gentleman Emhoff visits Auschwitz, part of a push against antisemitism

Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a U.S. president or vice president, is in Poland and Germany to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and address rising antisemitism around the world.

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Wife of Everest climber says he tragically died from altitude sickness

Kellinu Portelli was described as an "extremely" fit climber who was "well prepared" for the trek, an inquest heard

Manchester Evening News

'My dad survived Hitler - I found out his full story at 43 and it's my duty to share it'

Maralyn Turgel spoke to the Mirror about what it was like growing up with a Holocaust survivor father and why it's paramount her family keep his story alive this Holocaust Memorial Day

Daily Mirror

Watch live: Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp marks anniversary of liberation on Holocaust Memorial Day

Watch live as the museum on the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp marks the anniversary of the liberation in 1945.

The Independent UK

Holocaust education requires more than noble mandates

Most states don’t require that the Holocaust be taught. Even in states where it is mandated, the mandate usually just requires that it be taught, without specifics. Too many mandates are noble in principle, but ineffective in practice.

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Virtual reality brings Holocaust history to future generations

For those who survived the Holocaust, the memories can never be erased, but their generation is dying out. Educators and historians are looking for new ways to keep their experience alive and connect to younger people.

Reuters

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is now an opera – the case for adaptating the book that the Auschwitz Museum said 'should be avoided'

Irish novelist John Boyne published his novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in 2006. The protagonist, eight-year-old German boy Bruno, has no idea that his father is the kommandant of a concentration camp during the second world war. Bruno and his family are sent to live with their father…

The Conversation

Calderstones mum never revealed her past fighting Nazis

Sabine Specter was part of the resistance during the war, before she moved to Liverpool

Liverpool Echo

Saved from the Nazis when her mother pushed her through a hedge, Anne spent the war as a 'hidden child'

Anne Super survived the war years against the odds. On Holocaust Memorial Day she talks about the extraordinary moment her mother told her to ‘run’

Manchester Evening News

New audio series tells the story of forgotten piece of Holocaust history in the North East

'The Girls', the five part series from BBC Radio Newcastle has pieced together the story of a hostel in Tynemouth that housed over 20 girls who were fleeing Nazi persecution

Chronicle Live

Light a virtual candle for the victims of genocide on Holocaust Memorial Day

Friday marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

Manchester Evening News

Susan Pollack OBE: Holocaust Survivor tells her story for memorial day

A Nazi concentration camp survivor has urged people to end a culture of blame and instead learn from the past to put an end to atrocities we continue to see around the world. Marking Holocaust Memorial Day, Susan Pollack told The Standard: “Hate has a way of spreading. It isn’t…

Evening Standard

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Daily Mirror

Holocaust Memorial Day: Five survivors and the precious objects they smuggled to safety

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, five survivors recall their stories, and the item they still have that means so much to them as part of the Daily Mirror's #PeopleMove project

The Conversation

Holocaust remembrance: we must beware of well-intentioned mythmaking as events pass out of living memory

In ancient Rome, the saeculum, or “the age”, was the span of living memory, the telling of an event passed down from the oldest to the youngest. Recognising this profound idea, some have worried that the memory of the Holocaust will fade as the generation of those who survived it…

The Independent UK

78 years on, Jewish Holocaust rescuers want their story told

Just before Nazi Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944, Jewish youth leaders in the eastern European country jumped into action: They formed an underground network that would save tens of thousands of fellow Jews from the gas chambers

Evening Standard

Holocaust Memorial Day: Auschwitz survivor urges people to treat each other equally

As world remembers atrocities, survivor Susan Pollack urges people to learn from the past and end culture of blame

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Liverpool Echo

The bride and groom moved to Liverpool. Everyone else was murdered.

"It’s like a big black hole... even the young children died."

AAP

Holocaust survivors call for salute ban

Holocaust survivors are seeking a meeting with Victorian officials as they push for a ban on the Nazi salute after a spate of recent incidents.

The Independent UK

Social media ‘challenges preservation’ of Holocaust truth, says trust chief

Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, spoke about battling ‘ignorant’ Holocaust disinformation on social media.

The Independent UK

Antisemitism rising because of a lack of Holocaust education, survivor says

Vera Schaufeld fled Nazi-occupied Europe as a child and stressed the importance of continuing to speak out.

The Independent UK

Holocaust survivor urges people not to be silent over antisemitism

John Dobai, 89, lived through the Second World War as a child in Hungary, but five of his family members were killed.

The Independent UK

UN chief: Exhibit of Nazi victims is call to fight cruelty

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the Nazis tried to rob millions of Jews of their names before killing them during World War II

Bangkok Post

Warsaw Uprising a lesson for all

January 27 was designated by the UN as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day to commemorate the six million Jews that were murdered in the Holocaust. During World War II, the Nazi regime systematically and brutally annihilated, in cold blood, six million Jews, including one million children, together with another…

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