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On the occasion of today's commemorations of the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Christoph Heubner, writer and Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee, received the Medal of Honour in Memory of the Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw today. This is the first time... ... Christoph Heubner, writer and Executive Vice-President of the International Auschwitz Committee, is the first German to be awarded the Medal of Honour in Memory of the Ghetto Uprising.
Vienna - At a moving ceremony in the Austrian Parliament, Marian Turski was honoured as an internationally respected dialogue partner and witness of the times for tirelessly combatting anti-Semitism. The award ceremony took place during the presentation of the Simon Wiesenthal Prize 2023, at which... ... Simon Wiesenthal Prize for Marian Turski, President of the International Auschwitz Committee and Auschwitz survivor.
During a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial with German and Polish trainees, Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee, commented on today's TV duel between CDU politician Mario Voigt and Björn Höcke of the AfD: ... TV duel between Mario Voigt and Björn Höcke on today’s Remembrance Day for the Liberation of Buchenwald.
With an official decree signed on March 28th, 2024, the President of the Republic of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, awarded ANED the Golden Medal for Civil Merit for its “outstanding work in defense of the values of the Constitution and the ideals of the Resistance against Nazism and Fascism. For the... ... Golden Medal for Civil Merit to the Association of Italian political deportees from Nazi concentration camps (ANED).
Today, Auschwitz survivors around the world are commemorating 19 March 1944 when, eighty years ago, the German Wehrmacht occupied Hungary on Hitler's orders (Operation Margarethe). Also on that day, the SS managed to lay its murderous hands on the last remaining large group of Jewish people in... ... 80th anniversary of the German occupation of Hungary and the deportation of the Hungarian Jewish families to Auschwitz
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