Memoria [EN] No. 18 (03/2019) | Page 5

In December 2018, the Auschwitz Memorial gained more than 120,000 Twitter followers in around five days, according to Memorial officials. This growth came not from paid advertising or any concerted campaign, but was motivated by Twitter users rushing to support the Memorial against a flurry of antisemitic tweets. Three months later, the account has over 300,000 followers.

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Thousands of Jews escaped extermination thanks to a Spanish diplomat nicknamed "the Angel of Budapest" - yet the late Angel Sanz Briz is hardly known in Spain today. His improvised heroics in 1944 saved more than 5,000 Hungarian Jews from deportation to Auschwitz.

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Eddy Hammel was the first US-born player to compete at the highest level of European football, but his Holocaust story - not his stardom with Ajax Amsterdam - is the reason he must never be forgotten.

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Janine Webber, the Holocaust survivor fighting prejudice through hip hop. The 86-year-old tells Jack Dutton how she teamed up with rapper  Kapoo to make a short film, ‘Edek’, named after the Polish man who hid her during the Holocaust.

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