(Jerusalem Post) Risto Huvila - On Jan. 27, most Western countries mark the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 1995, the European Commission recommended that all its member states mark the date. Finland adopted Remembrance Day in 2002, but, unfortunately, they call it the "Remembrance Day for the Victims of Persecutions," the only European country that fails to refer to the Holocaust. The writer is Vice-Chair of the Finnish Holocaust Remembrance Association.
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