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Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 27, 2023

Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2023 on the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the largest act of Jewish resistance against the Nazis.

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A group of people walk in front of the main gates of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz Birkenau
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