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Silviu Vexler, a member of parliament representing the Jewish community speaks, backdropped by members of an honor guard, wearing masks for protection against the COVID-19 infection, outside the Holocaust memorial during the National Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, October 9, 2020, the day when, in 1941, the deportations of Jews and Roma began in the country. About 280,000 Romanian Jews and 11,000 Romanian Roma, or Gypsies, were deported and killed during WWII when Romania was ruled by a pro-nazi regime. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)
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