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Yom HaShoah 2023: How Israel remembered the Holocaust
Israel marked Holocaust Remembrance Day with a ceremony at Yad Vashem honouring the 6 million Jews killed by Nazis
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The extraordinary tale of the Jewish shoeshine boy to a Nazi commandant
Harry Balsam lived in the villa depicted in Schindler's List, cleaning shoes for Joseph Müeller and ended up a Windermere boy
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'Brilliant' Holocaust survivor Zigi Shipper BEM dies on his 93rd birthday
Tributes are being paid to Zigi, who has been described as 'a man full of spirit with a devastating story to tell'
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The Shoah robbed us of so much creative talent — and the last of those who survived are now leaving us
The Hungarian survivor and renowned violinist Bela Dekany died aged 94, a loss to us all
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Felix Kolmer, Terezin and Auschwitz survivor, dies age 100
Kolmer, former President of the International Auschwitz (survivors) Committee, said reaching age 100 was his way of defying the Nazis
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Elie Wiesel understood the power of silence
The Nobel Prize winner died six years ago this week
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Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert shares testimony at Israeli Embassy event
The attendees discussed the role of social media in Holocaust education
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Holocaust survivors land in Israel on rescue flights as Yom HaShoah begins
'I was a refugee in 1941 and now I’ve become a refugee again'
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Me & You: Manfred Goldberg and Zigi Shipper: 'If it wasn't for Manfred I wouldn't be alive today'
They met as 14-year-olds in a concentration camp and have been friends ever since.
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