On January 27, 1945--80 years ago--Allied forces liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau. Auschwitz was the complex of camps, near the Polish town of Oświęcim, where nearly a million Jews were murdered within five years, and also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, the handicapped, and others, 1.1 million altogether. The United Nations designed January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, to remember the Jewish victims of the Shoah and the millions of other victims of the Nazis... I had heard of this book, "And Every Single One Was Someone," by Phil Chernofsky. Except for the introduction, the book contains only the word Jew, 4800 times on each page for 1250 pages, thus repeating the word 6 million times. The cover depicts a Jewish prayer shawl.
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