Eight decades after the Holocaust, its memory is at a “crossroads” as survivors who can offer firsthand accounts of the horrors of Nazi-era Europe dwindle, said the head of an Israeli memorial center. Dani Dayan, chairman of Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem institution, told AFP that nothing can truly replace the “authentic voices” of survivors of the systematic murder of Jewish people in retelling that painful chapter of history.
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