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Auschwitz survivors to sound alarm 75 years after liberation
AFP, Published on 27/01/2020
» OSWIECIM (POLAND) - Seventy-five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, a dwindling number of elderly Holocaust survivors gathered at the former German Nazi death camp on Monday to honour its more than 1.1 million mostly Jewish victims and to share their alarm over rising anti-semitism.
How the world discovered the Nazi death camps
AFP, Published on 27/01/2020
» PARIS - Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the first Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror of the Holocaust to global attention.
Three rockets hit US embassy in protest-hit Iraqi capital
AFP, Published on 27/01/2020
» BAGHDAD - Three rockets slammed into the US embassy in Iraq's capital on Sunday in the first direct hit reported after months of close calls, as thousands kept up anti-government sit-ins across the country.
Auschwitz lesson still not learned
News, Meir Shlomo, Published on 27/01/2020
» Seventy-five years ago today, on Jan 27 1945, it must have seemed as if the gates of hell themselves had been thrown open. The liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, by Soviet forces finally brought home the full horrors of the Holocaust to a shocked world. What the soldiers of the Red Army saw when they entered the camp was simply inconceivable in its dreadfulness. They found thousands of sick, starving and tortured victims, who had been confined in appalling, harrowing conditions, and the evidence of the extermination of around 1.1 million innocent people.
It's news, but is it true?
Asia focus, Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 27/01/2020
» The mainstream news industry has been gasping for air for some time now; lying alongside it in the jaws of death is the truth. But there will always be news. The industry is the medium, while news is the matter. Truth exists at its heart, a stern and no-nonsense master.
Never forget
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 27/01/2020
» Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a solemn moment when we reflect on one of the darkest periods in human history: the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews along with 5 million Slavs, gypsies, blacks, homosexuals, political enemies and members of other persecuted groups.