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Thursday, January 15, 2015
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
UK issues new medal for Holocaust survivors
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe United Kingdom’s Royal Mint issued a new medal commemorating Holocaust survivors.
Chancellor George Osborne and Communities Secretary Eric Pickles, who commissioned the silver medal, said it was vital to keep ‘retelling’ the story of the murder of six million Jews.
The medal shows the words “Liberation 1945” breaking through barbed wires on the back. The front commemorates the 11th Armored Division, which liberated the Belsen camp, and a stylized eternal flame that has come to symbolize the Holocaust victims
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