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Holocaust survivor pays much-awaited visit to Pleasant Valley sixth graders

Quad-City Times 26 Apr 2025
Andre "Andy" Holten, 86, was five when he began hiding. His parents later died at Auschwitz and Birkenau. Forest Grove Elementary students are now writing a book on Holten’s story ... .
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Holocaust Remembrance Day: March takes leaders, mourners to Auschwitz

Penn Live 25 Apr 2025
People attend the "March of the Living", the annual Holocaust remembrance event in memory of the six million Holocaust victims, at the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, April 24, 2025.
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The responsibility of German police

Israel Hayom 25 Apr 2025
In order for us police officers to remain vigilant and aware of the history and responsibility of police work to protect people, we must also actively deal with the past and engage at places of horror, like Auschwitz or Birkenau.
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Songs of survival: How a teenager's singing talent helped him survive the Holocaust

The Oklahoman 25 Apr 2025
"How Saba Kept Singing" follows Avi Wisnia and other family members as they prepare their patriarch to visit and perform at the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2020.
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‘The Jewish Spirit’: Holocaust Survivors, Freed Israeli Hostages Gather at Auschwitz for ‘March of the Living’

The Algemeiner 25 Apr 2025
The march from Auschwitz I to Auschwitz II-Birkenau ... Twelve thousand participants marched the 1.7 miles from Auschwitz to Birkenau for the main ceremony, which was cut short this year due to heavy rain.
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Israel's Netanyahu calls Hamas 'Nazis' at Holocaust memorial

The Times of India 25 Apr 2025
Israeli officials, ambassadors and Holocaust survivors were in attendance.The rest of the world observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, the date when the Auschwitz-Birkenau ...
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Holocaust survivor pays much-awaited visit to Pleasant Valley sixth-graders

Dispatch Argus 25 Apr 2025
Andre "Andy" Holten, 86, was five when he began hiding. His parents later died at Auschwitz and Birkenau. Forest Grove Elementary students are now writing a book on Holten’s story ... .
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Israel, others mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

Las Vegas Review-Journal 25 Apr 2025
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog is in Poland for the annual March of the Living in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp ... The march’s traditional 2-mile route leads from Auschwitz’s ...
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Thousands of Israelis including freed Hamas hostages and Holocaust survivors join March of the Living ...

The Daily Mail 24 Apr 2025
The March of the Living follows a two-mile route to the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland ... The March of the Living follows a two-mile route to the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.
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Survivors, youth mark Holocaust at Auschwitz in Poland

Xinhua 24 Apr 2025
Participants walked the route from the "Arbeit macht frei" gate at Auschwitz I to the memorial at Auschwitz II -- Birkenau.
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Survivors of the Holocaust and Oct. 7 embrace at Auschwitz, marking annual March of the Living

Jewish Telegraph Agency 24 Apr 2025
March of the Living president Phyllis Greenberg Heideman reflected on the weight of this year’s delegation, saying, “It will probably be their last time in this godforsaken place, Auschwitz-Birkenau.”.
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Gov. Lombardo signs Holocaust Remembrance Day bill into law

Las Vegas Review-Journal 24 Apr 2025
Her parents were later sent to the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, where they were killed in January 1944 ... 27 — the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau ...
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Holocaust survivors march in Auschwitz 80 years after camp’s liberation

CyprusMail 24 Apr 2025
The March of the Living follows a three-kilometre (1.86 mile) route to the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau as participants pay tribute to the millions of Jews who died and call for an end to antisemitism and intolerance.
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