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In a message marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, President Trump called the Holocaust the "systematic persecution and brutal murder of six million Jewish people" - a marked departure from previous year, when his message omitted any reference to Jews. "We take this opportunity to recall the Nazis' systematic persecution and brutal murder of 6 million Jewish people", the statement reads, calling the Nazi rule "inhumane" and "brutal" and highlighting the other persecuted groups who were killed by the Nazi regime, such as gays, Slavs and others.
The White House on Friday recognized International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a message that said, "We acknowledge this dark stain on human history and vow to never let it happen again".
Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies will take place on Friday at the Holocaust Memorial at Makara Cemetery in Wellington at 1pm; at the World Peace Bell in the Botanic Gardens in Christchurch at 12 noon; and in Hamilton.
The anti-migrant, anti-Muslim AfD party won seats in the German parliament for the first time previous year, while the nationalist, anti-migrant Freedom Party is part of the coalition running the Austrian government.
Both parties have had issues with members making anti-Semitic remarks.
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"We should understand the way fascism arose in Germany and the circumstances that gave space for the Nazis to grow", he continued.
Hanni Levy, a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor from Berlin, criticized anti-migrant hatred during a speech at a Greens party convention in Hannover.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked the day in her weekly podcast by addressing the reemergence of anti-Semitism.
She said that schools, which already teach about the country's Nazi past, need to work harder at that especially so immigrant students from Arab countries will not "exercise anti-Semitism".
Am man with a Jewish yarmulke walks in front of the camp entrance after a wreath-laying ceremony on occasion of the global Holocaust remembrance day in the forme Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018.
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