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On April 24.4.2025, 12.000, the annual March of the Living took place, with the participation of approximately 7 people from all over the world. Among them were Holocaust survivors, released Israeli hostages from Gaza, and relatives of hostages and victims of the Hamas attack on October 2023, XNUMX. The march began at Auschwitz and ended at the Birkenau camp, honoring the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
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Today marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, which this year commemorates 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz and the revelation of the greatest crime in human history: the Holocaust — the extermination of 6 million European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators.
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Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni paid tribute to the memory of the 53.000 Greek Jews, victims of the Nazi atrocities at the Auschwitz camp in Poland. Lina Mendoni visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. In the place of martyrdom, collective memory is kept alive, so that these atrocities will never be repeated.
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With a modest ceremony at the Holocaust Memorial in Athens, on 9.3.2025, the Czech Embassy in Greece honored the memory of the Jews of the Terezín ghetto who were murdered in Auschwitz and brought to light an unknown aspect of the history of the Holocaust: the "cleansing" of the "Terezin family camp" in Auschwitz, on March 8, 1944, with the extermination of the Jews of the Czech Republic (then Bohemia-Moravia) from the Terezín ghetto in the gas chambers.
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In this year's WE REMEMBER campaign, 9 municipalities across Greece participated, spreading the message about the need to preserve the Memory of the Holocaust and combat anti-Semitism.
The City Halls of Athens HERE, of Rhodes HERE, of Corfu HERE, of Veria HERE, of Kastoria HERE and Kavala HERE illuminated their facades with the WE REMEMBER 2025 logo, which was also projected at the entrance of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Ioannina HERE and in the building of the Municipal Conservatory of Larissa HEREIn Thessaloniki, the slogan WE REMEMBER was included in the giant Holocaust Remembrance Day poster that covered the facade of the City Hall.
Also, in Chalkida, members and friends of the Israeli Community were photographed with WE REMEMBER signs at the city's Holocaust Memorial. HERE.