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BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic and the senior vice president of the pharmaceuticals firm Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD), Cyril Schiever, signed on Wednesday a MoU that will be significant for Serbia's future BIO4 Campus research centre.

Brnabic thanked MSD for supporting "our efforts to make Serbia a leader in biotechnology, biomedicine, bioresearch and bioinformatics."

Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, commemorated on Sunday the 80th anniversary of the departure of the first train convoy for the Auschwitz camp.

They were lucky to even survive the brutal train ride, with 80 people crowded into a single wagon with only a small window and bucket of water. But any luck ended at the ramp in Auschwitz. Questions of life and death were decided in an instant: upon arrival, she was separated from her mother and sister, who - as she learnt later - were murdered in the gas chambers right next door to her.

The Hellenic Parliament honored the memory of the victims of the Holocaust ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday evening by displaying the slogan "We remember" on its facade with a photograph of prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp. January 27 marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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Leaders from countries around the world will participate in the event.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov is on a working visit to Poland, where he will participate in the official ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the of liberation of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the cabinet's press service said.

Seventy-five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, a dwindling number of elderly Holocaust survivors will gather at the former German Nazi death camp on Jan. 27 to honour its over 1.1 million mostly Jewish victims amid fresh concerns over anti-semitism.    

A few months ago Peika.bg introduced us to Luis Basch - a traveller, who told us about his experiences from his trip to Chernobyl.

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A 78-year-old baby doll with the hair of an unidentified Jewish girl, who was slaughtered in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II in 1941, is the center of attention at the Anatolian Toy Museum in the southern province of Antalya.

How the Cohen sisters eluded deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau.