Auschwitz More than 40 leaders from around the world are gathering in Jerusalem this week to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The anniversary coincides with the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, entitled, "Remembering the Holocaust, Fighting Antisemitism." In the wake of high-profile attacks against Jewish communities in the US and the re-emergence of Nazi ideology in some areas in Germany, the issue of anti-Semitism is of growing global concern. Israeli officials say it will be important to have so many world leaders speaking with one voice in one place to denounce these sentiments. Two world leaders, however, will be conspicuously absent from the observation: Poland's President Andrzej Duda, who declined his invitation after he was told he could not make a speech at the forum's main event, and President Trump. |
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