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Holocaust Remembrance Day: Legacy and Exodus
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Exactly 80 years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated the remaining 7,000 prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The largest of the Nazi death camps, Auschwitz saw the murder of 1.1 million civilians in the span of five years. In total, the lives of six million innocent men, women and children who loved and were loved, were cruelly ended due to hate. But that is not the entire story.
Holocaust lessons tend to start from events beforehand — the rise of antisemitism and fascism in Europe, pogroms, Kristallnacht — then continue on to concentration camps and end with liberation. However, that is not the end of the Holocaust story.