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A group of people walk in front of the front building of former Nazi death camp Auschwitz Birkenau
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Holocaust

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, refers to the deliberate murder of Jewish people during the Nazi reign of Germany from 1933-1945. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked on January 27.

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