German chancellor Merkel calls on every citizen to fight anti-seminism
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on every single citizen to help fight anti-Semitism ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Merkel said Saturday in her weekly podcast: "Today we are seeing a very different kind of anti-Semitism: there's the hatred of Jews by our local people, but also by Muslim migrants." In recent years, Germany has seen a rising number of often violent attacks against Jews which led the government to appoint a commissioner against anti-Semitism. It's also funding the creation of a national registration office for anti-Semitic hate crimes. On Sunday, Germany and many other countries are marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day - 75 years after the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland. Some six million European Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.
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