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| - Features Editors: Paris: Kate Millar +33 1 4041 4636 Hong Kong: Liz Thomas +852 2829 6211 Twitter: @AFPfeature As part of our coverage to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of World War II Nazi death camps, AFP is today publishing a second package of stories, ahead of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, to be held from late Monday April 20 until the following evening. In the first part of the series, published on January 14 to mark 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, death camp survivors recounted their experiences. For this second installment, while commemorations will be held in Israel and elsewhere for the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis in Europe during WWII, albeit without being public due to the coronavirus crisis, AFP explores the act of remembering and memorial. The stories look at the passing down of a family's memories in New York, the use of social media in helping to preserve the memory of Auschwitz survivors and memorials to those who died in the camps faced with revisionist provocation in Germany. + From father to son, the shared experience of the Holocaust + Auschwitz online: raising Holocaust awareness in the digital age + Holocaust memorial sites fight new threat from far right US-Holocaust-Judaism-genocide-family,INTERVIEW NEW YORK Daniel Terna experienced neither the Holocaust that nearly killed his father nor the war that spawned it, but since childhood has been immersed in the inherited trauma. 750 words by Catherine Triomphe. Pictures by Angela Weiss. Video by Diane Desobeau History-Holocaust-Nazis-Poland-internet-Auschwitz,FOCUS OSWIECIM, Poland Every day, Pawel Sawicki, head of social media at the Auschwitz Museum, posts several photos of victims of the former Nazi German death camp on a Twitter account that has become a powerful tool in Holocaust education. 850 words by Bernard Osser. File picture. Video by Damien Simonart History-Holocaust-Nazis-Germany-farright,FOCUS BERLIN From swastikas sprayed on the walls to Hitler salute selfies, far-right provocations are a growing problem at the sites of former Nazi concentration camps in Germany. 750 words by David Courbet. File picture afp
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