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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS — The United States is committed to working with Greece and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) "to combat Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism and intolerance in all its forms", said US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt on Wednesday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The US also "strongly supports Greece’s leadership of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance this year", he noted, and "will continue to support the Greek government’s efforts to build a world-class Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki, to tell the story of the tens of thousands of Thessaloniki Jews who perished in the Holocaust."
"Greece, and Thessaloniki in particular, was home to one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in Europe," Pyatt highlighted, as Thessaloniki was "rightfully called the Jerusalem of the Balkans. Greek Jews are an integral part of Greece’s rich history and will be a key part of Greece’s future."
On the 16th International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the United States "will pay tribute to the six million Jews and millions of others murdered by the Nazi regime", he stressed, as "we also honor those who survived the Holocaust, while acknowledging the scars that many survivors have carried ever since."
"We look forward to the online events that the United Nations and UNESCO have organized in partnership with the IHRA to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day," Pyatt underlined, because it is "up to all of us to educate the next generation so that the horror of the Holocaust is never repeated."
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.