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thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Kobe Bryant, one of the greatest players in basketball history, died yesterday in a helicopter

crash along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna.

Bryant played 20 seasons for the Los Angeles Lakers, winning five NBA titles.

He was 41 years old.

For more, see my website article, The Death of Kobe Bryant

and the Urgency of Legacy. As the sports world follows this terrible tragedy, the world's

attention is focused on another tragedy of global significance. Today is International

Holocaust Remembrance Day. The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27th,

the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Burcanow,

as the annual day of commemoration.

Today is the 75th anniversary of that liberation.

More than 1.1 million men, women, and children lost their lives at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

However, this was just one of more than 44,000 incarceration sites operated by the Third Reich.

The Jewish people comprise only 0.2% of the global population.

Despite their tiny demographic size, they have been the victims of systemic persecution and oppression for millennia,

beginning with their enslavement in Egypt and continuing today.

The UN urged every member state not only to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust

and millions of other victims of Nazism, but also to develop educational

programs to prevent future genocides. In that context, I'd like to ask today, why do so many

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