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Hundreds protest Donald Trump’s Muslim ban outside JFK International Airport

Two Iraqi men with valid visas filed a lawsuit against Republican President Donald Trump’s administration after being denied entry to the U.S. at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Friday.

They argued that the president’s executive order preventing citizens of Iraq and six other Muslim-majority countries from coming into the U.S. for 90 days is illegal.

In May 1939, as the Nazis were tightening their chokehold on Europe, the United States government rejected the SS St. Louis, a German passenger vessel carrying 937 refugees who were trying to dock at the Port of Miami.

Almost all of those refugees were Jews fleeing violence in Germany and Eastern Europe, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The ship was eventually forced to return to Europe, where 254 of its passengers were killed.

TURNER, Joseph Mallord William (1775–1851)

27 January: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

On this day we honour and remember the nearly 21 million innocent souls who fell victims to hate racism and prejudice crimes, nearly 7 million of which were slaughtered for being who they were.

6 million Jews (1.5 million of which were children)

96 000 - 220 000 Romani

270 000 People with disabilities (be it physical or mental)

14 million civilians, caught in the crossfire, famine and ugliness of war from all over Europe.

This day is an important reminder of what once was and what should never be again.

May their rest be more peaceful than their life and may their memory be a blessing.

Women’s March on Washington