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Auschwitz Survivor To Speak At Florida Museum About Living Through Hitler's Reign
The Florida Holocaust Museum will feature a Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor who will share memories of being a surviving the Nazi regime.
ST. PETERSBURG, FL — International Holocaust Remembrance Day will be honored at the Florida Holocaust Museum Thursday with a virtual event featuring a Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor sharing her experience during the Holocaust.
The purpose of International Holocaust Remembrance Day is "two-fold: to serve as a date for official commemoration of the victims of the Nazi regime and to promote Holocaust education throughout the world," according to the Holocaust Encyclopedia.
Six million Jews and millions of others were victims of the Holocaust, Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center said on its website.
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Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor, Helen Kahan, will be the guest for the Florida Holocaust Museum's virtual lunch and learn Thursday. The museum plans to feature her also in the interactive Dimensions in Testimony exhibition later in 2022, a news release said.
The livestream of Kahan is scheduled to start at 12 p.m. via Facebook.
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Another way the museum, 55 5th St. S., St. Petersburg is honoring IHRD is providing free admission Thursday.
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The United Nations General Assembly designated Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Nov. 1, 2005. The date marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and is meant to honor the victims of Nazism, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said.
Following Adolf Hitler's death in 1945, antisemitism is still seen through hate messages and attacks on synagogues. A 44-year-old British national in Texas held a rabbi and three congregation members hostage at gunpoint at Congregation Beth Israel in Forth Worth for 11 hours Jan. 15, multiple news outlets reported. The suspect, Malik Faisal Akram, was later killed that night by an FBI team, and the rabbi and congregation members escaped uninjured.
St. Petersburg's Florida Holocaust Museum was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti in June. Following the incident, the Florida Holocaust Museum held a "Unite Against Hate" rally featuring a local rabbi, community members and leaders were in attendance offering their support.
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