Robert Jan van Pelt

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Roses are placed at the Gleis 17, Track 17, the memorial site for the train transportation from Berlin to the Nazi concentraton and death camp Auschwitz, in Berlin, Germany, on Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

How Jan. 27 came to be International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust

Robert Jan van Pelt, University of Waterloo

A historian of the Holocaust and curator of the Auschwitz exhibition, now in Toronto, invites all who gather on Jan. 27 to also consider the date’s political origins.

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