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Anne Frank House, Netherlands -

Established in 1957 in cooperation with the diarist's father, the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam operates as a museum in the building where she and her family went into hiding from 1942 to 1944.

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Statue of Anne Frank, Netherlands - Standing near the Anne Frank House is this statue of the young diarist, who hid with her family in the building before meeting her untimely death. (Photo: Flickr/CC0 1.0)

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Shoes on the Danube Bank, Hungary - A simple but effective sculpture that honors the 3,500 people (800 of them Jews) who were shot into the Danube River. The 60 pairs of iron shoes attached to the stone embankment represent the footwear left behind on the bank. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin - This dramatic memorial near Berlin's Brandenburg Gate consists of 2,711 concrete slabs arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The sculpture represents wartime Germany’s supposedly ordered social structure, but in fact is a system that has lost touch with human reason. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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Pinkas Synagogue, Czech Republic - Exhibited on an inner wall within Prague’s second-oldest synagogue are the names of Holocaust victims from Czech lands, and pictures drawn by children in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)

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New England Holocaust Memorial, USA - Located in Boston, Massachusetts, the memorial consists of six glass towers. Engraved on the outside walls of each tower are groups of numbers representing the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0)

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Bubanj Memorial Park, Serbia - This stark and powerful sculpture forms part of the memorial complex that commemorates the 10,000 citizens of Niš murdered by Nazi death squads. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Austria - Set over the ruins of a medieval synagogue in the center of Vienna, the Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial acknowledges the long and eventful history of the city’s Jewish community. The design represents a library with its volumes turned inside out. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

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Yad Vashem, Israel - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center/Yad Vashem features an extraordinary collection of memorials, including the Hall of Names containing pages of testimony commemorating the millions of Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Philadelphia Holocaust Memorial Plaza, USA - Situated at 16th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the new plaza is described as a living classroom and active civic space dedicated to remembrance and learning.

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The Pit, Belarus - The Pit stands on the spot where Nazi forces shot dead around 5,000 inhabitants of the nearby Minsk Ghetto in March 1942. The ghetto housed close to 100,000 Jews. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)

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National Holocaust Monument, Canada - Inaugurated in September 2017, Ottawa’s Holocaust memorial stands opposite the Canadian War Museum and affords views of the city’s Peace Tower. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach, USA - This striking memorial complex is found on Meridian Avenue in Miami Beach, Florida. It was conceived by a committee of Holocaust survivors. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Holocaust Memorial in Athens, Greece - Inaugurated in 2010, this city center memorial commemorates Greek Jews killed during the Holocaust. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

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Rumbula Forest Memorial, Latvia - The monument stands as a memorial to the 25,000 Jews killed in or on their way to Rumbula Forest outside Riga in 1941. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Memorial to the Victims of National Socialism, Germany - Pictured is the Eternal Flame, centerpiece of the memorial in Platz der Opfer des Nationalsozialismus in Munich.

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Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism, Germany - Berlin is the location for a number of Holocaust memorial sites. This monument, in the city's Tiergarten, is dedicated to the memory of the 220,000–500,000 people murdered during the Porajmos—the Nazi genocide of the European Sinti and Roma peoples. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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Hyde Park Holocaust Memorial, London - The inscription on the face of the memorial in Hyde Park quotes the 'Book of Lamentations' in Hebrew and English. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY 2.5)

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Memorial to the Holocaust of the Jewish People, Uruguay - Inaugurated in 1994, the Memorial to the Holocaust of the Jewish People in Punta Carretas, Montevideo is constructed from pink granite. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Holocaust Memorial at California Palace of the Legion of Honor, USA - Highly symbolic, this Holocaust memorial is located in San Francisco and depicts fallen bodies, one of which resembles Christ. The standing figure is a concentration camp survivor. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC0 1.0)

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Forest of the Martyrs, Israel - The Forest of the Martyrs memorial on the western edge of Eshtaol Forest will eventually be complemented by the planting of six million trees, symbolizing the six million Jews murdered during World War II. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Oregon Holocaust Memorial, USA - Found in the Oregon Holocaust Memorial at Washington Park in Portland, everyday items like this suitcase symbolize life interrupted. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Holocaust Memorial for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, USA - Set at Riverfront Park in Harrisburg, this memorial represents a group of Holocaust survivors living in the locality. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Memorial of the Hungarian Jewish Martyrs, Hungary - Set on the grounds of the Raoul Wallenberg Holocaust Memorial Park in Budapest, each leaf of this weeping willow sculpture bears the name of a family killed by the Nazis. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

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Memorial to Victims of the Injustice of the Holocaust, USA - The façade of the Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State in Manhattan features a discreet yet powerful Holocaust memorial that depicts an aerial view of a concentration camp based on a photograph taken during an Allied bombing raid. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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Monument to the Memory of Children - Victims of the Holocaust, Poland - Rubble from the Warsaw Ghetto lies at the foot of this memorial, erected in memory of the children who perished in the Holocaust. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Kalevi-Liiva dunes, Estonia - Standing near the site of the former Jägala concentration camp is this simple memorial to Jewish and Roma prisoners, executed after being transported to Estonia for extermination. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY 2.0)

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Babi Yar memorials, Ukraine - The Babi Yar ravine near Kiev is one of the most notorious massacre sites of WWII. In September 1941, over 30,000 Jews were executed here. Other victims included Soviet prisoners of war, Ukrainian nationalists, and Roma. Pictured is the "Gypsy Wagon" monument, just one of the Babi Yar memorials. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum memorial, China - The memorial outside the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum commemorates the Jewish refugees who lived in Shanghai during World War II after fleeing Europe to escape the Holocaust. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0)

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LA Museum of the Holocaust memorials, USA - Architecture at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust features panels engraved with historical notes describing the rise of fascism in Germany and its terrible consequences. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0)

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Glass bridges memorials, USA - The blue glass bridges etched with names and places lost during the Holocaust are one of the standout memorial installations found at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Stolpersteine, various locations across Europe - A Stolpersteine— literally "stumbling stone"—is a concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. Embedded in pavements in various locations in cities and towns across Europe, the first Stolpersteine was set in front of Cologne’s city hall. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Stolpersteine, various locations across Europe - The majority of Stolpersteine commemorate Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Others have been placed for Sinti and Romani people, homosexuals, and the physically or mentally disabled, among many others the Nazis saw as enemies or unfit to live. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

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New Orleans Holocaust Memorial, USA -

This artistic "visual prayer" is located in the city's Woldenberg Park, and represents both Jewish and non-Jewish Holocaust victims.

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