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Sports figures, artists, politicians and journalists took part in a charity soccer match Tuesday to remember the Holocaust

Sports figures, artists, politicians and journalists took part in a charity soccer match Tuesday to remember the Holocaust.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel was a guest of honor and proceeds from the "Match of Memory" went to a planned Holocaust museum in Rome.
The game was held on Remembrance Day, which marks the anniversary of the liberation by Soviet troops of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland in 1945.
Soccer matches in Italy are often marked by anti-Semitic and racist slurs. Tuesday's game at Stadio Olimpico, for which about 20,000 tickets were sold, stood in sharp contrast.
Before the match, six candles were lit honoring the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust.
"How many candles need to be lit to remember six million people killed by immoral violence?" Wiesel said in a speech before the match. "If this were a synagogue we would know what to do, recite a prayer for those that were lost. We are here tonight not only to remember, but to help everyone that must remember."

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