A Jewish woman, one of the few Italian children to survive deportation to Auschwitz, has been made a senator-for-life in Italy. President Sergio Mattarella chose Liliana Segre because of her commitment to telling schoolchildren about the Holocaust.
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Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (The Claims Conference) is planning to fund several new university lecturer positions for Holocaust focused courses in key European-based universities and is seeking universities that are interested in creating a partnership.
Students from all 108 universities and university colleges in England are set to be taken to visit the Auschwitz Memorial to learn about the Holocaust as part of a Government-funded project. The programme has been announced amid concerns about high levels of anti-Semitism among university students.
The letters featured in Yad Vashem's "Last Letters from the Holocaust: 1943" exhibition were sent from Ukraine, Bulgaria, Germany, Holland, Greece, Poland, France and Russia. These letters only allowed for few words, and mostly one form of wording: "We are well".
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