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75 Years After the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, WJC President Ronald S.
Lauder Honors Holocaust Survivors at Memorial Site on International Holocaust
Remembrance Day

In keynote remarks in front of dozens of heads of state and nearly 200 survivors
at the Auschwitz memorial site, WJC President Lauder urges stronger Holocaust
education, challenges world leaders to combat antisemitism. Watch President Lauder's full address to the commemoration ceremony here
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[[link removed]]OVERVIEW | 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau

A WJC delegation led by President Lauder was in Poland this week to mark
International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the
liberation of Auschwitz. Click below for a full overview of events and
activities, including videos and addresses.

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[[link removed]]Auschwitz survivors warn of rising antisemitism 75 years on | The Associated
Press

About 200 Auschwitz survivors, many of them elderly Jews and non-Jews who
traveled from Israel, the United States, Australia, Peru, Russia, Slovenia and
elsewhere, were in attendance at the 75th anniversary commemoration on the
memorial site. Many lost parents and grandparents in Auschwitz or other Nazi
death camps during World War II, but were joined by children, grandchildren, and
even great-grandchildren. “Do not be silent! Do not be complacent! Do not let
this ever happen again — to any people!” WJC President Ronald S. Lauder said.

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[[link removed]]At Auschwitz, Holocaust survivors plead ‘Never Forget’ | The New York Times

Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, said: “The attacks on
Jews, the killings, the vicious slanders have only grown worse, and they have
even spread to my country. Words are not enough. Political speeches are not
enough. Laws must be passed. Severe, tough, real laws that will put these
hatemongers away in prison for a long, long time. Children must be educated and
know where the hatred of Jews leads.”

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[[link removed]]Auschwitz, 75 years later: A race against time | Deutsche Welle

A visit to Auschwitz is a visit to the cusp of comprehension. That is the death
camp's enduring power and its greatest challenge. As the world marked 75 years
since Auschwitz was liberated, both aspects came to the fore. WJC President
Ronald S. Lauder said: "When you think of the Holocaust, you think of one word:
Auschwitz."

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[[link removed]]World leaders honor survivors beneath the gates of Auschwitz | New York Jewish
Week

The ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death
camp caps an emotional ‘reunion’ for some of the last eyewitnesses. During the
ceremony, WJC President Ronald S. Lauder told survivors: "I can’t imagine the
strength you needed to survive, and you did.”

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[[link removed]]Auschwitz was liberated 75 years ago. Today, antisemitism is reviving | Newsweek

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder told Newsweek ahead of the 75th
anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz: "Antisemitism is the world's oldest
form of hatred, and the sad truth is that we are witnessing a frightening
revival unraveling before our very eyes."

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[[link removed]]Op-ed by WJC President Ronald Lauder in CNN: 75 years after Nazi death camp was
liberated, the world pauses to remember

“As eyewitness survivors age and pass away, we must focus on combating the
passage of time's impact on remembering historical events. It's our collective
responsibility to counter the dissemination of outright lies that threaten to
dim the reality of the Holocaust's undeniable hatred.”

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[[link removed]]Op-ed by WJC President Ronald S. Lauder in JTA: Holocaust survivors will soon be
gone. Now it’s up to us to speak out against hate.

“As a Jew, I am frightened by how the world looks in 2020. The rate of increase
of antisemitic crimes in the United States and abroad should frighten every
citizen, everywhere, whether they live in a community with a large Jewish
population or not. We all have a responsibility to sound the alarm in order to
prevent further violence and vitriol because left unchecked, we know all too
well the horrors that threaten. We must prevent history from repeating itself."

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[[link removed]]I thought I understood the Shoah. A visit to Auschwitz changed that | Editorial
by Andrew Silow-Carroll in The New York Jewish Week

"On my first-ever visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, I finally understood how
physically overwhelming the site is... If you’ve made the pilgrimage, you know
what I am talking about. If you haven’t, you might think I am sounding naive,
having come to some sort of overdue epiphany about the Holocaust that shouldn’t
have escaped me as a Jewish adult."

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[[link removed]]WATCH | WJC President Ronald S. Lauder addresses commemoration ceremony for 75th
anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

At the January 27 official International Holocaust Remembrance Day memorial
ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau,
Ambassador Lauder presented keynote remarks on behalf of the Pillars of
Remembrance, private donors who support the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation and
its mission to preserve the authenticity of the memorial site.

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[[link removed]]WJC President Ronald S. Lauder on CBS | 75 years after Auschwitz, survivor
returns to death camp for first time

WJC President Ronald S. Lauder sat down with CBS This Morning to discuss the
recent rise in antisemitism and why it is as important as ever to listen to
survivors’ stories. The network also talked with Holocaust survivor David Marks
upon his first visit back to Auschwitz-Birkenau since being liberated 75 years
ago.

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[[link removed]]WJC President Ronald S. Lauder on PBS | The lessons of Auschwitz, 75 years after
its liberation

World Jewish Congress President Lauder tells PBS NewsHour that just as
antisemitism slowly increased before the Holocaust, we are currently seeing a
slow but steady rise of antisemitism around the world. The network also met with
Auschwitz- Birkenau survivors David Wisnia and Tova Freidman upon their return
to Auschwitz-Birkenau since liberation.

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[[link removed]]WJC President Ronald S. Lauder on Fox News | "Auschwitz is the strongest memorial we have"

WJC President Ronald Lauder, sits down with Fox News to talk about the
importance of preserving the history of the former Nazi concentration camp 75
years after liberation.

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[[link removed]]World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder in Bild | "Auschwitz is the
symbol of the Holocaust"

WJC President sits down with Germany’s Bild for an exclusive interview to talk
about the importance of Holocaust education and remembrance. President Lauder
explains that the one tragedies of the Holocaust is the fact that we will never
know what the victims could have accomplished.

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[[link removed]]Marking 75 years since liberation of Auschwitz, WJC urges world to say:
#WeRemember

The #WeRemember campaign culminated Monday evening, as WJC President Lauder
delivered his keynote address at the official commemoration ceremony on the site
of the former death camp. The campaign urged social media users to post a photo
of themselves holding a “We Remember” sign, together with a #WeRemember hashtag.
Launched on 13 January in the lead-up to International Holocaust Remembrance
Day, the #WeRemember campaign was trending on Twitter on Monday as high as
fourth in the world, and first in Germany.

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[[link removed]]WATCH | The 2020 WJC #WeRemember campaign for International Holocaust
Remembrance Day

Education is critical in the fight against ignorance and misinformation --
specifically Holocaust denial and distortion. Through www.AboutHolocaust.org [[link removed]] , a comprehensive new online resource created by the World Jewish Congress in
partnership with UNESCO, we plan on sharing indisputable facts about the
Holocaust with those around the world who need to hear it.

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[[link removed]]Here are some of the best Twitter tributes for Holocaust Remembrance Day | The
Forward

“As eyewitness survivors age and pass away, we must focus on combating the
passage of time's impact on remembering historical events. It's our collective
responsibility to counter the dissemination of outright lies that threaten to
dim the reality of the Holocaust's undeniable hatred.”

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[[link removed]]Photo expo dedicated to Holocaust survivors on display at UN in Geneva, with
support of WJC

The “Lest We Forget” exhibit features the work of German-Italian photographer
and filmmaker Luigi Toscano, whose collection of approximately 100 portraits of
survivors of Nazi persecution will be on display at the UN Palais as well as the
Place des Nations until 31 January. The photo installation accompanies the
commemorative events around the International Holocaust Remembrance Day,
observed on 27 January.

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[[link removed]]WJC’s Russian and EuroAsian affiliates unveil Candle of Remembrance in
Jerusalem, honoring the heroes and victims of the Leningrad siege

The Candle of Remembrance is an 8.5-meter obelisk symbolizing life torn by the
"flames of war” that consumed the souls of its victims. The monument was
designed as a collaborative effort of Russian and Israeli architects, who sought
to express that the tragedy of the siege of Leningrad and the tragedy of the
Holocaust were inextricably linked.

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[[link removed]]Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Rwanda, WJC Jewish Diplomat urges
world to stand up against hatred

In her address to the ceremony, WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps Chaya Singer noted
that both the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide began with the hateful rhetoric
and what she termed “seeds of hate left to grow.” Singer condemned in her
remarks the inaction of certain governments to fight antisemitism and called for
authorities around the world to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance
Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism.

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[[link removed]]Commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day in Toronto, WJC Jewish Diplomat urges
world to stand up against antisemitism online

In his address to the ceremony, WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps member Zack
Silverberg spoke about the rise of antisemitic rhetoric on social media and
praised WJC’s #WeRemember campaign for not only bringing awareness to the
Holocaust but taking an active in role in silencing hatred. Silverberg called
for every kind-hearted person to stand up against all forms of bigotry and
hatred, including rhetoric, because "what starts with words, doesn't end with
just words."

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