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Commemoration and Coexistence: An Eclectic Holocaust Ceremony

16 April 2023

VOI's Molly Livingstone is joined by Eran Rotshenker, director of student activities at the Rothberg International School, and students Heiner Georgi, a German Christian who grew up near a concentration camp; Lautaro Borrovinsky, a new immigrant to Israel from Argentina; and Elham Nassr Effin, an Arab-Palestinian, to explain their participation in an intimate Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day ceremony at the Hebrew University.

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