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Thousands of events worldwide mark Holocaust Memorial Day
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by Peter Lazenby and Ben Chacko

THOUSANDS of events are taking place in Britain and worldwide to mark Holocaust Memorial Day today.

Events will also mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation, by the Soviet Union’s Red Army, of Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland.

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