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Today is Yom HaShoah, a day for remembering the victims of the Holocaust. In Israel and around the world, ceremonies are being held to memorialize the six million who perished. Our work at the Claims Conference focuses on those whose lives were destroyed by the Shoah, both those who were murdered and those who survived. We [...]  Slovakia recently commemorated the first transport of its country’s Jews from Poprad to Auschwitz 70 years ago. One thousand Jewish women were deported to the concentration camp on March 25, 1942. On Friday, outgoing Prime Minister Iveta Radicova and Holocaust survivor Edita Grosmanova took a commemorative train ride from Poprad, in northern Slovakia, to Oswiecim, Poland, [...] Yad Vashem stands in Israel not only as a memorial to the Nazis’ victims, but also as a reminder of the responsibility shared by all of us to guard against something like the Holocaust ever happening again. The Claims Conference has been a long-time partner of Yad Vashem, dating back to the founding of the [...] John Demjanjuk was convicted earlier this year of being an accessory to the murder of more than 28,000 people while serving as a Nazi guard at the Sobibor extermination camp. He was sentenced to five years in prison and although he now lives as a free man in Germany while his lawyers appeal the decision, [...] |
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