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Gloria Tessler

Gloria Tessler is obituaries editor at the Jewish Chronicle.

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Passing the flame to our children's children

The children of Holocaust survivors are taking on the job of Shoah education

By Gloria Tessler

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YORK, ENGLAND - JANUARY 23: School children light candles as 600 candles are lit in a Star of David set out on the floor of the Chapter House of York Minster as part of a commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day on January 23, 2020 in York, England. The ceremony in the Minster is part of events in the UK and internationally marking Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27. This year marks the 75th anniversary since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945 which was the largest Nazi death camp. The Holocaust genocide took place during World War II in Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany where aided by its collaborators they systematically murdered some six million European Jews. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

2G7KTX9 File photo taken in 2010 of French Artist Christian Boltanski at the Grand Palais in Paris, France. Christian Boltanski, one of France's top contemporary artists whose multimedia works probed the meaning of mortality and memory, has died aged 76. Boltanski often mixed banal daily objects with photographs, videos and sculpture, while at other times creating monumental installations. Photo by Philipp Hugues Bonan/Alamo/ABACAPRESS.COM

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