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World Leaders Mark Opening of Holocaust Museum in Israel

HeadlineMar 16, 2005

In Jerusalem, over 40 world leaders gathered Tuesday to mark the opening of a new Israeli memorial to the Holocaust. The memorial puts on display artifacts, diaries and photographs of some of the six million Jewish victims. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan spoke at the ceremony. “World wide revulsion at the genocide at the systematic murder of six million Jews and million of others was also a driving force behind the universal declaration of human rights,” said Annan. “Our global mission of peace, freedom, and human dignity, was literally forced in fire in fact the most awful fires that mankind has ever seen.” Annan’s wife is the niece of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved 100,000 Jews in Hungary during World War Two. Wallenberg was arrested by Soviet troops who liberated Budapest and was never heard of again.

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