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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8632

28 January 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/holocaust
Romano Prodi approves idea of "holocaust memorial day"

Brussels, 27/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - In a declaration on Tuesday by the president of the European Commission Romano Prodi explained that 27 January, the date of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945, would be the "day on which we commemorate the Holocaust, the persecution and extermination of the Jewish people". He noted that remembering the holocaust "has a universal value" and that humanity continued to "stain itself with the crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing,...

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