People around the world commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Holocaust

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World leaders will be attending the ceremony at Auschwitz on Monday including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Britain’s King Charles III.

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00:00People around the world are paying tribute to the victims of the Holocaust on its 80th

00:07anniversary. Prime Minister of the Netherlands Dick Schoof, along with hundreds of people,

00:12attended a Holocaust commemoration in Amsterdam on Sunday, held at the Auschwitz Memorial

00:18in Woutenpark.

00:20Jacques Grishever from the Dutch Auschwitz Committee reflects on the enduring pain of

00:25the Holocaust.

00:27The pain has not disappeared, but it has given me the strength to fight for a world where

00:33Auschwitz is not only a promise, but also a reality. Auschwitz is more than a commemoration,

00:42it is an assignment.

00:46Auschwitz survivor Barbara Donecka, who was 10 years old at the time, carries the memory

00:51of those who perished in the camps, especially her 4-year-old friend Helena. Shaken by Helena's

00:57death, she returns to the camp to pay tribute.

01:12Nazi Germany claimed over 6 million Jewish lives, but also millions of others, including

01:18Poles, Roma and Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war, gay people and others targeted for elimination

01:24in Adolf Hitler's racial ideology.

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